NOTES OS N1D1F1CATWN IN KANARA. 3.39 



The nests are in forks of leafless trees, frequently pollards, and are 

 large masses of roots, bordered with green moss and ornamented 

 with the webs of red ants. They exactly match the branch they are 

 built on, and are exceedingly difficult to discover, building, as this 

 bird does, where there are thousands of suitable trees. The bird, 

 however, like its smaller ally Pondicerianm is a restless one, and 

 constantly flies to and from its nest in pursuit of insects ; conse- 

 quently if a pair are noticed in the breeding season, it only requires 

 an hour or so of careful watching to mark one or other bird on to the 

 nest. I have never found more than two eggs or young in any nest, 

 they are very broad ovals ; the ground-colour is a greenish-white 

 but a very clear white, and they are richly marked with brownish- 

 purple at the larger end. 



267.-THE LITTLE PIED SHRIKE. 



Hemipus picatus, iSykes. 



This bird is common in Kanara. I have, however, only found two 



nests ; both were situated like the one I found previously in Nasik, 



on horizontal branches of the Silk-cotton tree, and both were only 



about twelve feet from the ground. Both nests were found in May. 



282.— THE BRONZED DRONGO. 



Chaptia aenea, VieilL 



This is very common bird in Kanara, and I obtained many of its 



nests. They were always neat little cups generally of light coloured 



roots and grass placed in forks of trees from ten to fifteen feet from 



the ground. 



404.— THE SOUTHERN SCIMITAR BABBLER. 

 Pomatorhinus horsfieldi, Sykes. 

 This bird is common in Kanara. I however only obtained 

 two nests. Both were large oval masses of grass, placed on the 

 ground on a bank in thin jungle, but close to some heavy thickets. 

 They were taken in February, 1890, and each contained three par- 

 tially incubated eggs. 



464.— THE MALABAR GREEN BULBUL. 



Phyllornia Malabavicus, Gm. 

 This bird I consider rare in Kanara, and I have seen but few 

 specimens. Jerdoni on the other hand is common everywhere. I 



