ACEOCEPHALUS DUMETOEUM. 
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Captain Hutton as to its building in a bush ; he found a nest in the middle of a small rose-bush, about 2 feet 
from the ground ; it was “ elliptical in shape, and about the size of an OstricVs egg, made of the largest and 
coarsest blades of a kind of dry grass, the egg-cavity being lined with grass-bents of a finer quality.” The 
eggs in the nest were four in number, “ pure white and beautifully glossed, and well covered with rufous or 
reddish-brown spots, most numerous at the obtuse end.” 
Subgenus LOCUSTELLA. 
Similar in external structure to the last, but possessing longer under tail-coverts, minute 
instead of well developed bristles, and a striated upper plumage. 
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