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(148) Cisticola volitans — The Golden-headed Fan-tailed Warbler. 



Oates, No. 380. 

 I came across a number of warblers, which were most undoubtedly 

 of this species, in a broad open plain south of the hot springs. I have 

 got specimens of this bird every year, since 1888, from this place, but 

 have met with them nowhere else. I have been able to distinguish 

 no difference in their note between this and the last species. 



(149) Cisticola cuksitans. — The Rufous Fan-tailed Warbler. 

 Oates, No. 381; Hume, No. 531. 

 I have found this bird breeding on the grassy summit of a hill over 

 4,000 feet high. 



(150) Feanklinia gracilis. — Franklin's Wren- Warbler. 

 Oates, No. 382 ; Hume, No. 536— 8— 536 Ter. 



Common everywhere up to nearly 5,000 feet, but above this I have 

 not met with it. I mention here merely the different types of eggs 

 I have met with, as its nidification generally is far too well known to 

 call for remark : 1, plain white ; 2, white, densely covered everywhere 

 with minute specks of red ; 3, do. with brownish, the marks forming a 

 very distinct ring ; 4, plain blue ; 5, do. profusely speckled with red- 

 dish all over ; 6, do. with numerous very faint tan marks, making the 

 egg look like a miniature of those of Ochromela nigrorufa, the Black 

 and Orange Fly-catcher ; 7, blue, boldly speckled with black ; 8, 

 blue, blotched, with reddish all over. Besides there is every interme- 

 diate form, and an endless series can be made of these eggs. 



I have noticed that at the beginning of the season plain white or 

 plain blue eggs are far more numerous in proportion to the others than 

 they are later on, as may be shown by the following table kept during 

 1891. April was the first month in which an account was kept, and it 

 was continued until September, after which I temporarily left the 

 sub-division. 



Plain blue. 



April 14 



May 32 



June 14 



July ... ... ... 6 



August ... 3 



September 



