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flitting from branch to branch and uttering series of clicking notes, which 
sound something like “ tirr ticki-ticki-ticki-ticki.” The nest is placed in 
the thickest part of a bunch of grass, close to or on the ground, more often 
than not under the shelter of some dwarf “ wait-a-bit ” thorn bush ; it 
is oval in shape, like those of all the Cisticolidae , composed outside of dry 
blades of grass curled round and mixed with the soft, white silky fibres of 
weeds with which the interior is warmly lined. The eggs vary in colour, 
like those of other members of the genus, being sometimes plain white, 
pink, or of various shades of greenish blue, but more often speckled in 
varying quantity with a number of other colours ; specimens in the Trans- 
vaal Museum collection measure 15 -2-16 X 11 -6-12 -3 mm. 
Specimens in the Transvaal Museum collection : — 
No. 
Locality, 
Date. 
Sex. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Tars. 
Culm. 
5284 
Honingspruit Stn. 
8 17 /08 
? 
49 
45 
17 
10 
5288 
5 1 5 5 
.18/2/09 
? 
50 
40 
17 
10 
948 
Irene, Pretoria. . . . 
29 / 10 /02 
s 
53 
45 
18 
10 
5285 
Pretoria 
30/1/09 
? (?) 
50 
39 
18 
10 
5286 
55 
30/1/09 
? (<?) 
53 
43 
17 -5 
10 
5287 
55 • • • • 
13 12 /09 
"A 
O 
52 
44 
17 
9 
6798 
55 
22/7 /09 
? 
49 
41 
17 
10 
6799 
5 5 
22/7/09 
? (juv.) 
47 
41 
18 
10 
6808 
5 5 
4 
? (?) 
47 
37 
17 
10 
8956 
55 
29/4/11 
■* (<?) 
53 -5 
46 
18 *5 
10 
8957 
55 
29/4/11 
3 
52 
45 
17 
10 
8958 
55 
29/4/11 
3 
51 
45 
18 
10 
8960 
55 
5/6 /II 
3 (juv.) 
i 51 
45 
18 
10 
8961 
55 ..... 
16/3/11 
? 
51 
42-5 
18 
10 
8962 
55 
5/6/11 
2 
47 
40 
17 
10-5 
8968 
55 • * 
5 / 6 11 
? 
49 
44 
17 -5 
10-5 
8969 
55 
5/6/11 
'<? 
53*5 
47 
18 -5 
10 -5 
6806 
55 • * 
13/4/10 
3 (?) 
50 
45 
17 
10 
9527 
5 5 .......... 
10/1 /12 
??(<?) 
52*5 
41 i 
18 
11 
6807 
Warmbaths, T’vaal 
26/7/09 
? (juv.) 
47 
45 
17 
10 
8959 
55 55 
17 /12 /09 
-A 
O 
52 
45 
17 -5 
10*5 
6805 
Goud River, T’vaal 
22/7/10 
<J 
52 
44 
18 
10 
6800 
Nylstroom, T’vaal 
22/7/09 
-A 
o 
52 
44 
17 
10 
6810 
Lydenburg District 
4/4/10 
? 
47 
40 
17 
10 
6814 
Hector Spruit 
25/5/10 
s 
51 
47 
18 
10 
6812 
Koedoes River, Tvl. 
24/9/10 
? (3) 
53 -5 
46 
18 
10 
6813 
5 5 5 5 
24/9/10 
? 
46 
39 
17 
10 
6809 
Woodbush, T’vaal 
12/12/09 
? 
45 
35 ? 
17 
? 
2395 
Matabeleland 
16/9/05 
<? 
52 
43 
18 
10 
4450 
Zimbiti, Beira 
12 /I /08 
?(<?) 
49 
36 
18 
10 
6815 
55 
14/9/10 
3 
49 
41 -5 
18 
? 
6816 
55 
24/7/10 
3 
48 -5 
39 
17 *5 
10-5 
5289 
Boror, P.E. Af . . . . 
22/7/09 
* (?) 
42 
37 
16 
16 
Note. — T he specimens from Zimbiti ( mvlleri ?) are somewhat paler on the under surface 
of the body. The specimen from BDror has a very distinct subterminal smudge on the tail 
feathers, and it is so much smaller than any of. the others that I think it may be considered 
