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298. Yellow-vented Bulbul — Pyononotus analis. 



An inhabitant of low-lying swampy country, from Mergui southwards. 

 The nest is of the ordinary bulbul type and is built generally in a fairly 

 thick bush often near the ground ; two nests were placed in creepers which 

 had enveloped dhani palms (Nipa fruticans), whilst one was practically on 

 the ground in a grass tussock. I have had no luck with this bird, as the 

 nests were almost all empty or else occupied by newly hatched young, and 

 very few eggs were obtained. These are of a very red appearance, due 

 to the rich, almost blood, red spots with which they are thickly speckled 

 all over, though Darling, whilst noting this type of colouration, observed 

 that the eggs of this species were prone to the usual amount of variation 

 met with in the eggs of most bulbuls. The birds breed here in March and 

 April, and very possibly earlier ; the eggs taken average about 0-85 X 0*65. 



299. Finlay son's Stripe-throated 'Bnlhul— Pycnonotus fi7ilayso7ii. 

 Although the bird is so common, nests are rather scarce. It seems to 



like fairly open country for breeding purposes, and the nest as a rule is 

 placed in an isolated shrub, within two or three feet from the ground: 

 when one does come across a nest it is easy enough to see. The birds 

 seem to lay invariably two eggs, at ail events I have no record of a 

 greater number, though 1 have a vague idea that Mackenzie once found 

 one with three. The description given by Hume does, as usual, full 

 justice to these pretty eggs, and I have only to add that the type with 

 the well marked zone of blotches is a very shrike-like egg. Those in my 

 collection measure on the average about 0"82 X 0'62. 



310. Black-headed Bulbul — Micropus melanocephalus. 



A nest was found on March 6 with two young about two days old. It 

 was on a frond of a cane, in dense evergreen forest, and was more like 

 a flycatcher's nest than a bulbul's, being a tiny pad of dead leaves, the 

 very shallow cup being sparsely lined with the hair-like fungus. The 

 parent birds hawked insects on the wing, much after the manner of 

 flycatchers, with which they fed their young. 



329. Tenasserim Ashy Drongo — Dicrurus nigrescens. 



Two nests were found by me in scrub jungle on the sea coast on April 14 

 1919. The first of these was avery shallow pad of the usual drongo type, 

 placed on the top of a horizontal fork of a branch about seven feet 

 from the ground, and contained three fresh eggs with a pink ground 

 colour and spotted all over, very much recalling certain types of nightjar's 

 eggs ; the second nest was in the vertical fork of a small pollard, tree, a 

 deep cup, and as conspicuous as a bulbul's, and the eggs, two in number 

 and fresh, had a pure white ground colour and were richly marked with 

 deep brownish red blotches, and it would be hard to imagine any two types 

 more dissimilar. 



543. Gold-crest Myna — Ampeliceps coronatus. 



A nest was found in process of construction in a hole in a casuarina 

 tree at a height of about thirty feet from the ground, on April 14, and I 

 got the clutch of three fresh eggs on April 30. The nest was said to 

 consist of dead leaves and casuarina shoots, whilst the eggs are a clear 

 Cambridge blue, and measure 1-12 x 0-78: 1-01 x 0-78: 0-97 X 0-80. 



731. White- bellied Munia — Urolonclm leucogastra. 



These birds, which are found as far north as Tavoy, appear to replace U. 

 punctulata south of Mergui. The nests are precisely like those of U. punc- 

 tulata, and the birds breed throughout the year, but chiefly in the hot 

 weather. They lay five or sometimes six eggs .which average about 0'58 x 0'44. 



898. Burmese Yellow-breasted Sunbird — Amchnechthraflammaxillaris. 



This beautiful httle sunbird nests from December to March, making the 

 usual sunbird's nest, often in gardens and close to houses. It is fond of 



