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with blackish on the breast and sides, with others more minute on 

 the chin and throat; from the nostrils a white line passes over the 

 eyes ; tail two inches and a half long, and occupies above half the 

 length of the bird, the end paler ; legs reddish. 



The female is smaller, the brown above paler, the under parts 

 yellowish white; over the eye, in both sexes, a faint yellowish streak. 



Inhabits various parts about the Cape of Good Hope, as well as 

 other places, especially the East Coast, on the borders of Sondag, 

 Swart Kop, and more particularly Swartland, and the downs of 

 Saldanie Bay. Makes an oval nest of down, somewhat in the 

 manner of the Long-tailed Titmouse, mixed with moss and fibres, 

 very irregular outwardly, with an opening for entrance two-thirds 

 from the bottom, the inside perfectly smooth and strong. It is nine 

 inches long, though the cavity is only five inches. The female lays 

 seven or eight eggs, pale green, spotted with rufous brown ; both 

 sexes sit in turn, and are for the most part seen together. 



M. Levaillant observes, that in many of these nests were found 

 the egg of the Crested Cuckow, but it seemed remarkable, and 

 unaccountable, how it could be placed there. 



125— CITRON WARBLER. 



Le Citrin, Levail. Afr. Hi. 106. pi. 127. f. 1. 2. 



THIS is smaller than the Babbling Warbler, but the tail as long- 

 as the body. The male has the bill brown ; eyes light rufous ; 

 plumage above, wings, and tail, pale yellowish brown, tending to 

 Isabella colour; throat and fore part of the neck whitish, the rest 

 of the under parts pale yellow, changing to white beneath the tail ; 

 on each side of the breast a brown mark, accompanied with smaller 

 ones, but does not pass round as a collar; the tail is cuneiform, the 



outer feather very short ; bill brown ; legs yellow. 



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