“At Sambhur,” Mr. Adam says, “this Wren-Warbler is always found wherever there are low bushes.  It breeds just before the rains, but I have not recorded the date.  I had a nest with the bird and five eggs sent to me.  The eggs are pale bluish white, with reddish-brown spots and freckles all over them.”

“During July, August, and the early part of September,” remarks Mr. W. Blewitt, “I found a great number of the nests and eggs of this bird in the jungle-preserves of Hansie and its neighbourhood.  The nests, of which I have already sent you several, were mostly in ber (Zizyphus jujuba) and hinse (Capparis aphylla) bushes, at heights of from 3 to 4 feet from the ground.  Five was the largest number of eggs that I found in any one nest.”

Major C.T.  Bingham remarks:—­“I found several nests of this bird in the beginning of October at Delhi in the jherberry bushes so plentiful on the Ridge.  Both nests and eggs are very like those of Cisticola cursitans before described; the only difference I could find was that the entrance in the nest of C. cursitans that I found was at the top, and in all the nests of F. buchanani at the side rather low down; the nests of the latter are also firmer and more globular in shape.  The eggs are, to my eye, identical in colour and form.”

Mr. G. Reid informs us that at Lucknow it is fairly common and a permanent resident.  It makes an oblong, loosely constructed nest with the aperture near the top, and lays three or four white eggs minutely spotted with dingy red.

Mr. J. Davidson writes that in Western Khandeish this Warbler is the commonest bird, breeding about Dhulia in July, August, and September.

Colonel E.A.  Butler writes:—­“I found a nest of the Rufous-fronted Wren-Warbler at Deesa on the 27th July, 1875.  It was in a grass beerh, and placed in a heap of dead thorns overgrown with grass and about a foot from the ground.  It was composed externally of dry grass-stems, with lumps of silky white vegetable down (Calotropis) scattered sparingly over the whole nest.  The lining consisted of very fine dry grass neatly put together and felted with silky down, and a considerable amount of the dull salmon-coloured fungus or lichen referred to in the ‘Rough Draft of Nests and Eggs,’ p. 359.  In shape the nest is nearly spherical, being slightly oval however, with a small aperture near the top.  The entrance was 11/2 inches in diameter, and the nest itself roughly measured from the outside 41/2 inches in length and 4 in width.  The eggs, usually four in number, are white, closely speckled over with pale rusty red, intermingled with a few pale washed-out inky markings, in some cases at the large end, which is surrounded by a zone clear and well-marked in some instances, less distinct in others.  I found other nests in the same neighbourhood as below:—­