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2152. Phylloscopus sibilatrix. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 319. 
My specimens were shot at different dates during the 
months forming the winter of Europe, the latest being 
March 26. All that I have shot or seen were in the 
tree-tops of the open land, where they were busily flitting 
about, pursuing insects. They seemed to prefer a certain 
kind of tree with open, spreading foliage; and more than 
once were seen in trees just coming into leaf, where the 
mucilage of the buds attracted insects. 
2228 b. Turdus pelios saturatus. [Etyito.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1902, p. 95. 
Merula saturata Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 124. 
To my brief note about the Etyito in f The Ibis 3 (1905, 
p. 473) I have to add a description of the nest and eggs. 
But first I must say a word more about its song. Some 
individuals, at least, are as fine songsters as any Thrush 
that I know. One that I have listened to many an evening 
at Bitye could pour forth a song of endless variety, now 
mocking other birds, now uttering notes of its own, all in 
a full rich voice. 
Nests of this bird are not infrequently found on plantains 
or at the base of the palm-fronds, about villages. They 
are always in damp places, and have been most often found 
in the rainy season; the base of the nest is always of damp, 
rotting fibres of weeds or plantains, and in one a weed-seed 
had germinated and was growing out of the side of the nest, 
which had eggs in it. The top part of the nest, however, is 
always dry—that is, composed of rootlets and small weed- 
stems. The number of eggs found was either two or three; 
they vary in length from 24 to 28 mm., and in breadth 
from 20 to 21 mm. 
[A series of eight eggs, which vary in shape from a very wide 
blunt oval to a wide regular oval and are somewhat glossy. 
The ground-colour varies from bluish-green to pale bluish- 
white, and in one specimen it is warm cream-colour. Some 
