NOTES ON " THE BIRDS OF BOMBAY." 



here. 1 found six nests last August near Baroda, each with one 

 egg ; and my men found a nest building in the Police Lines at 

 Khaira on the 10th October; unfortunately it was destroyed by 

 monkeys. 



Mr- Barnes gives no details of the nesting of these two species, 

 though Hume describes both, and Jerdon the latter. Can Mr. 

 Barnes give us any information about the nesting of the white-bellied 

 drongo, B. ccerulescens ? It occurs sparingly here between 

 November and April, but seems to go east to the hills to breed. 



The Paradise fly-catcher (if. paradisi) is very common here during 

 the rains, when it breeds. In all instances except one out of nine 

 nests that I found with eggs last June and July, the birds were in 

 the chestnut plumage, and in that one case the male was white and 

 the female chestnut. The mynas destroyed three nests of one pair 

 of paradise fly-catchers that built in a mango tree near my house. 

 I saw the little fly-catcher defend her first nest for nearly twenty 

 minutes against a myna, that at last retired. Next day, however, 

 the nest was torn to bits, by the myna I suppose. It was twice 

 rebuilt on other branches of the same tree, with the same result, 

 1 don't know where she bred after leaving that tree in disgust. 



Mr. Barnes has overlooked the description of the eggs of Cyornis 

 Tickelli in Nests and Eggs; and surely to say only of Dunxetia 

 (dbogidaris, the white-throated wren-babbler, that " it is probably a 

 permanent resident," is to leave out of sight much common informa- 

 tion. It is a permanent resident here, and last August I found 

 many nests, which, with the eggs, resembled those described in 

 A 7 ests and Eggs. 



I may record that 452, Ixos luteolus, the white-browed bush 

 bulbul, is common in the ravines along the Mahi and not scarce 

 about Baroda. It seems to prefer the neighbourhood of water and 

 is a hard bird to see, though there is no mistaking its musical trill 

 from some deep thicket. It is not given in Butler's Guzerat list. 

 The Indian oriole, which, Mr. Barnes says, he has found chiefly 

 breeding on neem trees, here prefers mango or mhowra trees. I 

 can assure Mr. Barnes that he is quite mistaken in thinking that 

 the Magpie Robin, C. saularis, does not remain to breed in Guzerat. 

 It is a permanent resident hereabouts, and I found between May 

 30th and June 26th last eight nests within a mile of my house. 

 The number of eggs or young varied from two (young) to six 

 (hard set eggs). I have seen the Dayal (a name also given here 



