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Mr. T. F. Bourdillon writes : — " The eggs of this bird are very 

 plentiful from December to June. It builds a very neat compact cup, 

 not unlike a Chaffinch's nest externally, but lined with small roots 

 resembling horse hair. This is usually placed in a bush, sometimes 

 in the thatch of a building and not far from the ground, and contains 

 three or four eggs, reddish-white, very plentifully spotted with purple, 

 red and ashy. The spots generally run into a zone at the larger end, 

 but by no means always. The average is O'DxO'65." 



(32) Iole icterica. — The Yellow-browed Bulbul. 

 Oates, No. 295 ; Jerdon, No. 450. 

 The Yellow -browed Bulbul is almost as common as the last, but is 

 confined to the hills, where it frequents forest. I have seen it at all 

 elevations from the foot to 2,000 feet in the south, above this in Pirmerd 

 and the Cardamom Hills, and still higher in the High Kange. It 

 goes about in small flocks. 



(33) Pycnonotus gularis. — The Ruby-throated Bulbul. 



Oates, No. 303; Jerdon, No. 455. 



This bird is not common. I have found it in open forest at the foot 



of the hills and also in thick forest at about 2,000 feet. On the ghat 



road to Pirmerd it may be met with more frequently than anywhere 



else. 



(34) Pycnonotus luteolus. — The White-browed Bulbul. 

 Oates, No. 305 ; Jerdon, No. 452. 

 I have not met with the White-browed Bulbul myself, but my 

 collector shot two in the low country near Cottayam in North Travan- 

 core in August, 1893. Since then I have had no more specimens. 

 (35) Micropus ph.eocephalup. — The Grey-headed Bulbul. 

 Oates, No. 313 ; Jerdon, No. 457. 

 This is a forest bird and I have only found it on the hills at about 

 2,000 feet elevation. Oates says it is " found from about Anjengo in 

 Travancore." Anjengo is on the sea coast, and I doubt its being found 

 there. If any specimen is so labelled it has probably been bought 

 from an Anjengo collector. There used to be several of these men 

 who made a living by shooting birds on the hills and bringing their 

 skins for sale. They never labelled these and always said they came 

 from Anjengo. I have shot this bird at only one place in the plains, 

 and that is Kuttyani, which, as I have said already, is an exceptional 

 locality where the old forest is still standing. 



{To be continued.) 



