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inches in length by about 0*54 in breadth. In colour the eggs 

 vary a great deal, there being two distinct types, one resembling 

 some eggs of the Yellow-throated Sparrow {Gymnoris fiavicollis), 

 having the ground colour of a pale green covered with large 

 irregular blotches of purplish-brown, and the other having the 

 ground colour very pale cream, with large rusty blotches, which 

 are moBt numerous at the large end. They desert the nest on the 

 slightest provocation, even after the eggs are laid. 



The eggs in my collection, which I owe to the kindness of Mr. 

 Doig, belong to the first-mentioned type. 



446.— THE GHAT BLACK BULBUL. 



Ilypsipetes ganesa, Sykes. 



The Ghat Black Bulbul is stated to occur sparingly on tho 

 Sahyadri Range, only as far north as Mahableshwar, but I have 

 received the nest and eggs from Matheran, taken in June, and am 

 almost certain that I saw a bird at Khandalla in July. The nest 

 was placed against the side of a stout branch, just where a few thin 

 twigs jutted out, and these formed a support to the nest, some of 

 them being incorporated with it. The nest appears small for the 

 size of the bird, the egg cavity measuring about two and three 

 quarters inches in diameter by about one and a half deep. 



The nest is composed principally of moss, well lined with fine 

 grass and moss roots. 



The eggs are oval in shape, pinched in a little at one end, and 

 measure rather more than an inch in length by about three-quar- 

 ters in breadth ; they are of a pale pinkish-white stone colour, 

 profusely spotted and speckled with claret and purplish-red, and 

 having a few underlying spots of pale inky-purple. 



Mr. Davidson found it common in the Kanara jungles, princi- 

 pally on and above the Ghats. 



Kanara, April and May. J. Davidson, C. 8. 



450.—THE YELLOW-BROWED BULBUL. 



Criniger ictericus, Sw. 



Mr. Davidson has kindly furnished me with the following in- 

 teresting note : — 



"This is a very common bird in all the Kanara jungles wherever 

 the jungle is evergreen. It builds a slight nest on a thin branch of 

 a low sapling. This is fastened by the sides to a fork like an 

 oriole's, and is composed outwardly of rope-like fibre, with a dead 



