v 
D2 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 
cobwebs. The cup is usually somewhat elliptical—one in my 
collection measures 2°5 by 1:75 inches in diameter, and 1°5 in 
depth, and is lined with fine roots, fibres, and the thin seed- 
bearing stems of the “ false maiden-hair.” Two would appear 
to be the full number of the clutch, for, though I have taken 
a dozen or more nests with eggs, I have never seen one with 
more. The eggsare remarkably handsome, of a rich, almost 
Text-fig. 2. 
Nest of Phyllostrophus flavistriatus. 
(Usual type, strung from leaves of Dracena.) 
pink, brown-madder ground-colour, deepest at the larger 
end, which is almost invariably surrounded by a clearly- 
defined zone of bold spots, streaks, and pencillings of a 
darker crimson-brown, intermingled with similar underlying 
markings of grey; a few of the markings stray into the 
upper and lower portions of the egg, which are otherwise 
clear. Another type is paler and more purplish in ground- 
