116 WARBLER. 



The female is rather smaller, wants the brown on the breast; and 

 the colours are more inclining to rufous, partaking less of the Isa- 

 bella colour. 



They inhabit the Namaqua Country, about the Cape of Good 

 Hope, from the river Epine Noire to beneath the Tropic, but not for 

 certain elsewhere. They live in society, and make a nest of the 

 down of plants, of an oval shape, having a small hole of entrance 

 two-thirds of the way up, in the same manner as the Great-tailed 

 Species. It is of a stout fabric, and placed in the middle of a low 

 bush, at a moderate height ; the eggs are four or five, rufous white, 

 spotted with brown.* 



126.— RED-RUMPED WARBLER. 



LENGTH about seven inches. Bill black, with a yellow base, 

 where are a few slight, short, scattered harrs ; iridesred; eyelids 

 white, appearing as a circle ; plumage above pale brown, beneath 

 white ; lesser wing coverts the colour of the back ; at the bend of 

 the wing, on the edge, a patch of pale blue ; the rest of the wing 

 black; upper and under tail coverts tine rufous red; tail black; 

 legs dusky blue; the wings reach to the base of the tail. 



Inhabits India; called Schurriah. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



127. -AZURE WARBLER. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill slender, black ; plumage in general 

 blue; over the eyes a slender white line; from the throat down the 

 middle to the belly, a streak of white ; belly and vent white, mottled 

 on the latter with dusky; quills and tail black; legs black. 



Inhabits India. Said to be a male. 



* This is one of the nests in which the Crested Black Cuckow lays her eggs. 



