338 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



"Karwe" [Strobilanthus]. They are hung from the tips of the 

 plants, generally from 4 to 6 feet from the ground, and generally 

 on the outside of a clump. I have always found two eggs or young. 

 The former have been all of one type, not in the least resembling 

 those sent from the Neilgheries, and which are described as similar 

 to Asiatica but miniatures. I have seen at least twenty clutches, and 

 all were exactly alike, the ground-colour being pinky-white, and the 

 larger end being well spotted with reddish-purple, a zone being 

 formed in some cases ; the eggs are also much smaller than those of 

 Asiatica. If the Neilgheri eggshave been rightly identified, it seems 

 strange that this bird should lay such different types of eggs. 



235.— THE LARGE PURPLE HONEY-SUCKER. 



Ar achnechthra lotenia, Lin. 

 This bird is not uncommon in Kanara, and breeds both in 

 the end of the rains and during the hot weather along the coast. 

 Above the ghats though I have often seen the bird I have never 

 taken the nest. Mr. Aitken has already fully described the nest in 

 this Journal, and the few I have seen agree with his description. 

 The eggs are of the Asiatica type, and except being larger, cannot, 

 I think be discriminated with certainty. 



239.— THE NEILGHERY FLOWER-PECKER. 



Dicaeum concolor, Jerd. 

 This flower-pecker is found in Kanara, at all events above the 

 ghats, but I have only one or two specimens, and I expect it is much 

 rarer than Erythrorhynehus. Unless in the hand it is almost impos- 

 sible to distinguish the one from the other, and one cannot keep 

 shooting all the poor little birds one sees in order to find out exactly 

 what they are. I shot one, however, from a nest in the Sirsi Taluka 

 on the 28th March, 1890. The nest was about ten feet from the 

 ground, in a tree newly come into leaf, and was close to the main 

 road, and I was able to take it without dismounting ; the nest and 

 eggs were undistinguishable from those of Erythrorhynchm. 



264.— THE MALABAR WOOD-SHRIKE. 



Teplirodornis Sylvicola, Jerd. 

 This shrike is a permanent resident in Kanara, and fairly common 

 all over the district. It breeds in March and the early part of April. 



