616 
Mr. G, L. Bates on the 
usually have. The bird seems to know no other building- 
site than a pair of the hanging long-elliptical leaves of 
the tall endogen, Amomnm sp., which is abundant in old 
clearings. These leaves are sewn together into a deep sack, 
which is filled with strips of large grass-blades and fine fibres 
as a lining. The sewing is done with tough cobwebs, which 
are passed through holes punctured in the edges of the 
leaves, forming true stitches ; at one side the edges of 
the leaves are joined, at the other left a little apart and 
connected by the cobweb-threads passing around the side 
of the nest. Nests of Burnesia leucopogon differ from those 
of Cisticola erythrops in shape, being deep and narrow, the 
bird always using only two rather narrow leaves ; they 
further differ from the nests of the Cisticola in having no 
downy lining. 
A pair of nestlings found in one nest had the inside of 
the mouth orange and two large oval black spots at the 
base of the tongue. 
In only one instance were the eggs more than two in 
number; in the clutch of three, one egg differed some¬ 
what both in shape and the proportion of the brown and 
the grey colouring from the others, and only two empty 
sheaths were discovered in the bird’s ovary. The eighteen 
eggs measured, some of which only could be saved, did not 
usually vary more than half a millimetre in either dimension 
from 17 X 12 mm.; but a large one is 18 X 13 mm., and two 
very long ones from the same nest measure 18*5 x 12 mm. 
and 19 x 12*5 mm. respectively. 
[Eggs of this species vary from a regular oval to a long 
oval shape and are devoid of gloss. The ground varies from 
pale greenish-blue to white, and is somewhat sparingly 
marked with rather large and distinct spots and blotches of 
reddish-chocolate or reddish-brown and various shades of 
lilac-grey.—W. B. O.-G.] 
Euprinodes rueogularis. (Text-fig. 20, A & B.) 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 320. 
Euprinodes schistaceus Sharpe, Ibis, l . c. 
Nos. 4136, 3009, 3272, 3313, 4064, 3996. All except the 
