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eggs, one fresh and two badly incubated. One of the incubated eggs 
was broken. Of the measurements given above the smaller is for the 
fresh egg. 
A second nest taken on the same date looks as though it were an 
old one that had been "refurnished" with a new lining which on one 
side e.xtends considerably above the edge of the old nest which had 
tipped to one side. The lining is a fine root-like vegetable fibre (hazel 
brown in color). The old nest is made up of line dead twigs, mostly 
thorny, firmly bound together and attached to the surrounding twigs 
and vines by spiderwebs. This nest was about 25.3 cm. above the 
water. The inside measurements are 4.8 cm. in diameter by 2.3 cm. 
in depth. The two fresh eggs measure 19.5 x 14.5 and 20.5 x 14.75 
mm. June 5. 1905, a nest was found in the tops of some bushes, 
about 1.5 m. above the ground, in a marsh, that within another three 
weeks would have been completely inundated. The body of the nest 
is composed of fine dead grasses and weed tops firmly bound to- 
gether and to the surrounding twigs by spiderwebs. The whole is 
neat, trim and substantial in appearance, although so lightly builded 
that the eggs are readily seen through the bottom of the nest. There 
is an inner lining of fine, horse-hair-like black vegetable fibres. The 
inside measurements are 5.5 cm. diameter by 2.9 cm. in depth ; outside 
9x5 cm. The nest contained two eggs with incubation far advanced. 
Only one was preserved, and that measures 20.75 ^ 14-5 rn^i- 
In Juvenal plumage, this species is a dark sepia brown above, 
wings and tail brownish black. There are only the faintest indica- 
tions of paler edges to the feathers of the back and the wing coverts. 
Below the portion of the cheeks and throat that is crimson in the 
adult, is a pale ochraceous buff; the remaining under parts are white, 
faintly buffy on sides, flanks and under tail-coverts. 
Succeeding the juvenal plumage, there is a partial moult, in 
which the sepia brown feathers of the head are replaced, on the centre 
of the crown largely by ones with brownish black tips and crimson 
bases, the feathers themselves somewhat lanceolate in form but not 
markedly elongated. In this stage of plumage the sides of the face, 
lores and ear-coverts become brownish black ; the chin is blackish, 
and the ochraceous buff feathers of birds in juvenal plumage are 
largely replaced by rufous with slight intermixture of crimson, the 
crimson feathers having the lanceolate form of those of adult plu- 
mage. The remaining under parts are pale bufty white. 
