846 MR, A. loVeridge : notes on 



Andropadus insularis Hartl. 



Many nests of tlie Coast Olive Bulbul were also found, and 

 five clutches of two eggs each taken ; two would appear to be 

 the normal number for a clutch. The eggs are white, scribbled 

 and blotched with brown and faint purple at the larger pole, in 

 some cases all over. The nest is small and shallow, composed of 

 twigs, and lined with fine rootlets (Lumbo, 28.x. 18). 



Prinia mystacea tenella Fisch. 



Nests of the White-eyebrowed Grass-Warbler, with three eggs 

 in each, were found on 22.iii. 17, 5.iv. 17, and 21.vi. 17 at 

 Morogoro. 



Sylvietxa avhytei Shelley. 



This Warbler constructs a most beautiful purse-like nest, 

 which it hangs from the branches of a thorn-bush. Three nests 

 with eggs were found at Lumbo on 28.x. 18, and a bird was 

 sitting on two eggs at Morogoro on 28. xi. 18. Two appears to 

 be the normal clutch. 



CiSTICOLA LUGUBRIS Rlipp. 



A deserted nest of the Brown-headed Grass-Warbler, con- 

 taining one egg, was found ; from the interior roof of the nest 

 depended the paper nest of a wasp, Avhilst a small company of 

 solitary bees had their comb in the bottom (Ruaraka River, nr. 

 Nairobi, 11.x. 19). 



CiSTICOLA erythrops Hartl. 



A nest of the Rufous-fronted Grass- Warbler containing three 

 eggs (Nairobi, 5. vi. 15). 



OlCHLADUSA GUTTATA Heuffl. 



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The Spotted-crested Ground-Thrush is a very sweet singer, 

 generally holding forth from thickets just before sunset ; it does 

 not expose itself when singing. The mud nest is built upon a 

 branch or, more rarely, in a fork ; it is very deep. The eggs 

 are of a uniform blue colour. A broken egg beneath a nest on 

 12. i. 17 ; in another nest young on 22. ii. 17; two eggs in a 

 nest found on 4. iv. 17 and two more in one on 6. iv. 17 (Moi'o- 

 goro, 1917). 



Tchitrea cristata suahelica Reichw. 



I have seen this Paradise Flycatcher hovering up the trunk of 

 a tree, picking the insects ofl' the bark whilst on the wing. It 

 constructs a beautiful cup-shaped nest, which it covers with 

 lichen; one such was attached to some epiphytes at a height 

 of 8 feet above a mountain torrent, and contained young (Uluguru 

 Mts., 28. xi. 18). 



