AND NORTHERN GUZERAT. 485 



I found a nest near Deesa on the 14th August 1875. 

 It was placed in the middle of a tussock of coarse grass 

 on the side of a nullah on a bank overgrown with grass 

 and bushes, and my attention was attracted first of all to the 

 spot by the incessant chattering and uneasiness of the two old 

 birds, one of which had a large grasshopper in its mouth. After 

 hiding behind a bush for a few minutes, I saw the hen bird fly- 

 to the nest, which led to its discovery. The nest was dome- 

 shaped with an entrance upon one side and composed exteriorly 

 of blades of rather coarse dry grass, and interiorly of similar, 

 but finer material. 



It contained four young birds almost ready to leave the nest. 

 I saw another batch of four young ones about the same age near 

 the same place on the 19th August and another nest buildincr 

 in a similiar situation to the one already described on the 17th 

 August. I sent both of these nests to Mr. Hume — the latter, to 

 my great disappointment, was forsaken before it was finished, 

 so that I did not obtain the eggs. 



[Mr. Adam got this at Sambhur, I have had it sent from 

 Erinpoora and near Ajmere. Dr. King got it during the spring 

 at Jodhpoor, but I have neither obtained nor heard of it from 

 Sindh, Cutch or Kattiawar. — A. 0. H.] 



550.— Burnesia gracilis, Rilpp. 



The Streaked Wren Warbler is not common. I have usually 

 found it in long grass growing in the beds of rivers. I found 

 a nest in a tussock of coarse grass in the sandy bed of a river 

 amongst a number of tamarisk bushes on the 8th July 1875 

 in the neighbourhood of Deesa. It was composed of fine dry 

 fibrous roots and grass stems exteriorly, and lined with silky 

 vegetable down. It was a long bottle-shaped structure with 

 a small entrance on one side. The nest, eggs, situation, locality, 

 &c, all agree so exactly with the descriptions quoted by Dr. 

 Jerdon and with Mr. Anderson's note in Nests and Eggs, 

 Rough Draft, (p. 357.) that I should have found it difficult to avoid 

 copying these two gentlemen in describing my own nest. As 

 Blyth observes, " It inhabits low scrub intermixed with coarse 

 sedgy grass and tamarisk bushes growing in sandy places in the 

 beds of rivers/' The eggs, as Mr. Hume says, are pale greenish 

 white, thickly covered with bright reddish brown spots formino* 

 a zone at the large end. 



The nest I have mentioned contained three hard set eco-s 

 and one young one just hatched. 



[Does not ascend Aboo so far as I know, but occurs more or 

 less sparingly (except in the immediate neighbourhood of rivers 

 where it is more plentiful,) throughout the entire region, Sindh, 

 Cutch, Kattiawar, and Jodhpooj; to Sambhur. — A. 0. H.J 



