616 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



usually nave. The bird seems to know no other building- 

 site than a pair of the hanging long-elliptical leaves of 

 the tall endogeu, Ainonnim sp., -nhich is abundant in old 

 clearings. These leaves are sewn together into a deep sack, 

 which is filled with strips of large grass-blades and fine fibres 

 as a lining. The sewing is done with tough cobwebs, which 

 are passed through holes punctured in the edges of the 

 leaves^ forming true stitches ; at one side the edges of 

 the leaves are joined, at the other left a little apart and 

 connected by the cobweb-threads passing around the side 

 of the nest. Nests of Burnesia leucopoyon differ from those 

 of Cisticola erytlirops in shape, being deep and narrow, the 

 bird always using only two rather narrow leaves ; they 

 further differ from the nests of the Cisticola in having no 

 downy lining. 



A pair of nestlings found in one nest had the inside of 

 the mouth orange and two large oval black spots at the 

 base of the tongue. 



In only one instance were the eggs more than two in 

 number; in the clutch of three, one egg differed some- 

 what both in shape and the proportion of the brown and 

 the grey colouring from the others, and only two empty 

 sheaths were discovered in the bird's ovary. The eighteen 

 eggs measured, some of which only could be saved, did not 

 usually vary more than half a millimetre in either dimension 

 from 17x12 mm. ; but a large one is 18x13 mm., and two 

 very long ones from the same nest measure 18'5 x 12 mm. 

 and 19 X 12*5 mm, respectively. 



[Eggs of this species vary from a regular oval to a long 

 oval shape and are devoid of gloss. The ground varies from 

 pale greenish-blue to white, and is somewhat sparingly 

 marked with rather large and distinct spots and blotches of 

 reddish-chocolate or reddish-brown and various shades of 

 lilac-grey.— W. R. O.-G.] 



EUPRINODES KUFOGULARTS. (Tcxt-fig. 20, A & B.) 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 320. 



Euprinodes schistaceus Sharpe, Ibis, /. c. 



Nos. 4136, 3009, 3272, 3313, 4064, 3996. All except the 



