JOURNAL 



OF THE 



BOKBAT 



Hatttpl ItetoM ^ntitty 



No. 2.] BOMBAY, 1889- [Vol. IV. 



NESTING IN WESTERN INDIA, 

 (Continued from page 21.) 



226.— THE VIOLET-EARED RED HONEYSUCKER. 



Mtliopyga vigorsi, Sykes. 



This beautiful bird occurs all along the Ghats, straying from 

 there a little in the .cold weather ; it is very common at Khandalla, 

 where it is a permanent resident, breeding during the latter part of 

 the rains, making a hanging nest, a great deal larger than that of 

 the Common Purple Honeysucker. Mr. Davidson says that in the 

 only two cases in which nests came to his notice, they contained 

 three eggs and three young respectively. The eggs resembled those 

 of the Amethyst Honeysucker, but were considerably larger, and 

 had a hair line round the larger end, such as is common in some of 

 the Wagtails. 



232.— THE AMETHYST HONEYSUCKER. 



Cinnyris zeylonica, Lin. 



This is the common Honeysucker of the Deccan, and is very 

 abundant at and near Bombay. Mr. Davidson says that an 

 immature specimen was named by Mr. Hume from a lot of Cinnyris 

 usiatica sent by him from Khandesh, but that he personally never 

 identified one from there, and that even in the Nassick district he 

 never noticed it further east than Nassick itself, and that similarly 

 in Sholapur it did not come farther east than Pandharpur. 



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