WARBLER. 99 



very short, and weak in their texture. It builds among the reeds, 

 and has generally five young. In the time of incubation the male 

 expands the tail, in an erect manner, like the Peacock, quite on 

 the back. 



98.— PRATTLING WARBLER. 



La Caqueteuse, Levail. Afr. iii. 90. pi. 121. 1. 



SIZE of the White Throat. Bill, legs, and eyes, light brown; 

 general colour of the plumage above dull brown, with an olive gloss; 

 beneath dusky white, marked about the chin and fore part of the 

 neck with pale brown ; tail even at the end. 



The female is like the male, but smaller, and wants the marks 

 on the neck. 



Inhabits the inner parts of the Cape of Good Hope, found in the 

 marshes of Hottniqua and Verloore Valley ; makes a nest in the 

 middle of the reeds, fastening several of them together, in order to 

 support it; the eggs are five or six in number, white, spotted with 

 brown. Is a cackling, noisy species, continually crying Gri-gri-gra- 

 gra, repeated in all tones. The male takes his turn with the female 

 in hatching the eggs. 



99— ISABELLA WARBLER. 



L'Isabelle, Levail. Afr. iii. 92. No. 121. 2. 



SMALLER than the last. Bill shorter, more pale, nearly white : 



the plumage much as in the other, with an Isabella hue; quills 



rufous on the edges, but chiefly in the middle ; all the under parts 



rufous white, or yellowish ; quills and tail darker than the rest, the 



latter even at the end. 



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