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It is slightly smaller than a sparrow. It is ashy slate-coloured above and fluvous white below. The loose, longish, graduated, black-and-white tipped tail is carried partially erect and constantly shaken up and down. Both sexes are alike. Its winter plumage is less slaty, more brown, than in summer. It is seen in pairs in gardens and well-watered scrub country. Frequenting shrubbery in gardens, reeds bordering streams, and moist grassland and scrub, it hops about quietly among bushes, shaking its tail loosely up and down and uttering a sharp call from time to time. Its nesting season is from March to September, mainly after the onset of the monsoon. It builds two types of nests - 1) Like a Tailor Bird's, in a funnel of stitched leaves, and 2) an oblong purse of woven fibres tacked and bound with cobweb to the supporting leaves of a low bush.
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