“About 100 yards from the first, a second precisely similar, and similarly situated, nest of this same species was found, which contained three hard-set eggs, exactly similar in shape, texture, and ground-colour to those in the first nest, but everywhere excessively finely and thickly speckled with red, the specks exhibiting a strong tendency to coalesce in a zone round the large end.

“On the 12th and 13th July we obtained ten nests of Franklin’s Wren-Warbler, all in the neighbourhood of Doongurgurh.  From what I have seen, I gather that this species breeds from the middle of June to the middle of August in this part of the country.  They appear to resort to tracts at some little elevation, where the murori and kydia bushes are abundant, and where grass grows rapidly in the early part of the rains.  The nests, very ingeniously made, are invariably sewn to one or two leaves in the centre of one of the above-named bushes, the entrance above, just as in the nest of an Orthotomus.  They are placed at heights of from a foot to 3 feet from the ground.  Fine grass, vegetable fibres, and other soft materials are chiefly used in their construction, a little cobweb being often added.  The eggs are laid daily, and four is the normal number, though three hard-set ones are sometimes found.  The nest is prepared annually.  As far as I know they have only one brood.  Both parents unite in building the nest and in hatching and feeding the young.

“Of the ten nests now taken four contained speckled and six unspeckled eggs.  The two types are never found in the same nest.  I send all the nests, eggs, and birds.”

Dr. Jerdon says:—­“I found the nest of this species at Saugor, very like that of the Tailor-bird but smaller, made of cotton, wool, and various soft vegetable fibres, and occasionally bits of cloth, and I invariably found it sewn to one leaf of the kydia, so common in the jungles there.  The eggs were pale blue, with some brown or reddish spots often rarely visible.”

Colonel E.A.  Butler writes from Deesa:—­

“July 26, 1876.  A nest containing 3 fresh eggs. 
Aug.  1, 1876.    "        "     4 fresh eggs. 
Aug. 15, 1876.    "        "     2 fresh eggs. 
Sept. 3, 1876.    "        "     4 incubated eggs.

“All of the above nests were exactly alike, being composed of fine dry grass without any lining, felted here and there exteriorly with small lumps of woolly vegetable down, and built between two leaves carefully sewn to the nest in the same way as the nests of Orthotomus sutorius.  The eggs, three or four in number, are white, sparingly speckled with light reddish chestnut, with a cap more or less dense of the same markings at the large end.  All of the eggs in the above-mentioned nests were of this type.  I found the nests in a grass Beerh near Deesa, studded over with low ber bushes (Zizyphus jujuba), generally about 2 or 3 feet from the ground, and in similar situations to those selected by Prinia socialis, often amongst dry nullahs overgrown with low bushes and long grass.”