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at once set out for the spot where it had been taken 

 in the hopes of securing the birds ; but, though I waited 

 about until dark, I had no success. The nest was o£ 

 such a peculiar construction that I was unable to even guess 

 to what family it might belong. On meeting Capt. Venning a 

 a few years later, and discussing the nesting of U. oatesi, 

 I at once recognised that my nest must have belonged to 

 Wren of the same family, as the descriptions of both were 

 identical. When I was up at Sinlum in 1908, I procured 

 specimens of U sinlumensis in the same valley in which the 

 nest had been found, but failed to find any nest. The bird 

 itself is a most difficult one to shoot, as it frequents the 

 banks of streams in very dense undergrowth ; and as it has 

 a very powerful song for so small a bird, is more often heard 

 then seen. 



The nest Avas placed on a bank in a very damp locality, 

 the outside consisting of a loose ball of grass and leaves, 

 which very soon fell to pieces ; inside was a remarkable 

 little cup made of some whitish substance, which had been 

 worked up into a sort of papier-mache ; this was quite 

 hard and evidently waterproof, a very necessary arrange- 

 ment, as the bottom of the nest when brought to me was 

 quite damp. From the peculiarity of the nest, and from its 

 situation, I think there can be little doubt that it belongs to 

 this species. The eggs are different from those of U. oattsi, 

 two being a spotless white, the third having a faint pinkish 

 ground-colour sparingly streaked with darker pink; in shape 

 they are pointed ovals and measure '75 X '55. 



Cryptolopha tephrocephala. 



Cryjjtolopha tephrocephala (Anderson) ; Gates, Fauna, i. 

 1889, p. 423 ; Harington, Bombay Journ. xix. 1909, 

 p. 124 ; Venning, ibid. xxi. 1912, p. 627. 



Anderson^s Fly-catcher Warbler is a very common little 

 bird up at Sinlum, but I only managed to get one nest, 

 which was brought in to me by a Kachin, together with the 

 parent bird. The nest was a large massive globular struc- 

 ture of grass and roots, lined entirely with moss, and was 



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