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intimately associated with so pleasing a side of English life, but I myself have 

 heard it between such wide ranges of latitude, conditions and climate, as the 

 desolate and wind-swept Lang Fjeld in Norway which if not actually within 

 the Arctic circle must be very near it, and the oppressively hot jungles of the 

 Meduck and Warangul districts in the Hyderabad Dominions. Its occurrence 

 so far south as Horsely konda must surely be almost a record ? We were 

 all much pleased to hear it. 



It was only at the expense of some little trouble combined with good fortune 

 that I succeeded, on the 29th April, in obtaining a specimen o£ the yellow- 

 throated Bulbul. The bird is exceedingly shy and restless. No sooner does 

 the eye light on it than it is gone, and its flight takes it sufficiently far away to 

 discourage ideas of following it up. I secured my first specimen from the 

 verandah of the little Mission bungalow in which I was residing. Later, on 

 the 20th May, I secured another specimen, but by then more birds had arrived, 

 evidently to nest, and at the end of May they were not uncommon on the hill. 



The specimens I obtained, tallied exactly in dimensions and markings with 

 Oates' description. The irides are brown. 



The bird frequents the upper part of trees and its presence is readily de- 

 tected by its note to which it is constantly giving utterance. This, which is a 

 very pleasing note, whilst readily recognized as the note of a Bulbul, is louder 

 and mellower than that of any other Bulbul I am acquainted with. The birds 

 go about in pairs and, once up the hill, seem to take up their quarters in some 

 chosen spot where they are usually to be found: large boulders shaded by trees 

 being especially favoured. 



On the 15th May, whilst returning from a stroll in the jungle with the Rev. 

 W. Howard Campbell, whose name is, I believe, well known to the Society, 

 I found a nest of this bird. It was placed on the ground amongst dead leaves 

 and between two over-arching granite boulders. We were in thin jungle on a 

 sloping hillside. My companion, who is better up in the nesting of Indian 

 birds than I am, was not a little astonished at seeing a Bulbul's nest on the 

 ground. We retired some distance and watched the bird's return, and I subse- 

 quently observed the bird on the nest. It was a very ordinary Bulbul's nest 

 containing three eggs much like the eggs of other species of the Bulbul family. 

 They measured 83" by 67". 



On the 20th May I found another nest containing two eggs. This was placed 

 in a dwarf date palm (PImnix humilis) — a common feature of the vegetation 

 of our hills of this altitude in Southern India — on a fairly open hillside. On 

 this occasion also I made sure of the bird by watching its return and observing 

 it in the nest. 



Horsely konda would seem to be a great nesting resort at this time of year. 

 In the small compound of the house I occupied I found nests of the Common 

 Green Barbet {Thereiceryx zeylonicus), the Coppersmith, the Magpie Robin, 

 the Common Pied Bush-Chat, the Large Grey Babbler {Argya malcolmi'), and 

 tne Madras Red-vented Bulbul. A patient search would, I believe, have 



