“Aug. 24, 1875.  A nest containing 4 fresh eggs. 
July 20, 1876.    "        "     4   "    "
July 28,   "      "        "     4 young birds. 
Aug. 4,    "      "        "     4 fresh eggs. 
Aug. 5,    "      "        "     4   "    "
Aug. 5,    "      "        "     4   "    "
Aug. 5,    "      "        "     5   "    "
Aug. 8,    "      "        "     5   "    "
Aug. 14,   "      "        "     5   "    "

“In every one of the above instances the nest was exactly similar to the one I have described, and built in the same kind of situation, i.e. in heaps of dead thorns overgrown with long grass.  The eggs are all much the same, the spots being larger in some than in others and more numerous in some cases than in others.  In one set I have the ground is very pale bluish white (skimmed milk) instead of being pure white.  As a rule the eggs are almost exactly like the eggs of C. cursitans, and if mixed I doubt very much if any person could separate them.  On examining the salmon-coloured fungus-lining it appears to me to be nothing more nor less than small pieces of dried ber leaves, and I have never examined a nest without finding some of this material at the bottom of it.”

“The Rufous-fronted Wren-Warbler,” writes Lieut.  Barnes, “breeds in Rajpootana during July, August, and the early part of September.  The nest, composed of grass, is loosely constructed, and placed in low bushes or scrub.”

The eggs vary somewhat in size and shape; a moderately broad oval, slightly compressed towards the larger end, being, however, the commonest type.  Examining a large series, it appears that variations from this type are more commonly of an elongated than a spherical form.  The eggs are of the same character as those of Cisticola cursitans (p. 236), but yet differ somewhat.  The eggs are many of them fairly glossy, the shells very delicate and fragile; the ground-colour white, usually slightly greyish, but in some specimens faintly tinged with very pale green or pink.  Typically they are very thickly and very finely speckled all over with somewhat dingy red or purplish red.  In three out of four eggs the markings are densest and largest towards the large end; and, to judge from the large series before me, at least one in four exhibits a more or less well-defined mottled zone or cap at this end, formed by the partial confluence of multitudinous specks.

In some specimens the markings are pale inky purple, and in some slightly purplish brown, but these are abnormal varieties.  In one or two eggs fairly-sized spots and blotches are intermingled with the minute specklings, but this also is rare.  Of course in different specimens the density of the speckling varies greatly:  in some eggs not a fifth of the surface is covered with the markings, while in some it appears as if there were more of these than of the ground-colour.

In length the eggs vary from 0.55 to 0.66, and in breadth from 0.43 to 0.52; but the average of eighty-seven eggs is 0.62 by 0.48.