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are more.a dull oily fulvous or fulvous-grey than oily yellow as in 
SS. rujiceps, and the flanks and thighs are strongly tinged with brownish. 
Immature birds have the chestnut crown duller, but in other respects 
-are like the adult. 
I cannot dascern the slightest difference between the sexes, but I 
must own that I have seen very few specimens; indeed only five 
females and six males in addition to one nest of fully-fledged young 
which were able to fly. 
Captain Bingham states (wde Oates) that the hen has the chestnut 
of the head duller. 
Bill slaty blue; irides reddish-brown ; legs yellowish-brown, very 
pale. Length 4:4” to 4:5"; tail 1:9"; wing 2” or rather more ; 
tarsus °7" ; bill at front ‘35", and from gape ‘55.! 
The female is slightly smaller ; the three I have measured were 4:3!, 
4:2", and 4:2" in length, tail 1:7", 1:8" ; wing 1:9" barely. 
Nipirication.—I regret to say that I never noticed this bird till 
1889, when I had a nest with a male brought tome. It was, as usual, 
formed outwardly of grass and was lined with some light-coloured, 
fibrous material mixed with the fine ends of grass. In shape it was 
something like an egg placed on its large end, leaning slightly to one 
side, and with the small end cut off. It was 5:7” in length and 4:2" in 
breadth ; inside the diameter was 2'1". 
In 1890 I took three nests ; of these, two were of the ordinary glo- 
bular shape, and the third was as described above. 
The nest taken in 1889 was built in amongst the roots of a bamboo 
clump, two in between bamboos and the masses of twigs with which 
they were covered, one at about 4 feet, the other at about 6 feet from 
the ground. The fourth nest was taken from a bush, fairly thick and 
well covered with leaves ; it was wedged in between several twigs, and 
was quite screened from view until a careful search had been made. It 
was rather less than two feet from the ground. 
In shape, coloration and texture the eggs do not in any way differ 
from those of S. rujiceps. In the ten eggs I have all are regular obtuse 
ovals, there being no abnormal specimens. Strange to say, although the 
bird itself is distinctly smaller than the last, the eggs on the contrary are 
rather larger, those I have averaging 64” by -53!. They vary 
