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the former figure ; they are pure white, rather stumpy ovals, and larger than those of its congeners. I have 
found them to vary from 0’73 to 0‘63 inch in length, and from 0‘45 to 0‘5 inch in breadth. 
In India it breeds from July till October. 
Mr. Theobald writes of its nesting as follows : — " I found the nests near Pothanore, in the Coimbatore 
district, during the latter half of October. They were placed amongst reeds growing in a small pond ; they 
were round, with a round hole on one side for an entrance, and were composed of dry seeds and leaves of some 
flag-leaved grass very like the Cholium {Sorghum vulgare ) . The lining was composed of the hair-like filaments 
from the broom-grass of this country. Seven, I think, is the full complement of eggs.” Mr. Hume gives 
the average size as 0‘64 by 0'47 inch. 
