218 REV. ROBERT GODFREY 



The ordinary call is a soDiewliat drawn out and softly 

 metallic tccng or teengl: which is often uttered and serves 

 us as a guide to their haunts. Besides this call, there 

 is a continued cry tyeek tyeek tyeek and also a short 

 trill. The Green White-eye joins with the Bulbuls and 

 other species in harassing owls Avliose day-quarters they 

 may discover. 

 'At the end of September the bands begin to pair out, 

 and on October 22 I have seen one gathering material 

 on the ground. 



The nest of the Green White-eye was brought to me at 

 Pirie on a single occasion onl}^, 20 December, 1912. It 

 was a neat small translucent cup, measuring internally 

 50 millimetres across by 32 deep, Avith visible 'pores' 

 everywhere. In shape and material it resembled that of 

 the Caj)e White-eye. It was made of slender lichens and 

 green moss, with an odd leaf and spiders' cocoons in fair 

 quantity. The lining consisted of Galopina fruiting-stems 

 with one or two stems of another very slender plant. 



The eggs, two in number, were of a uniform pale blue, 

 decidedly smaller than those of the Cape White-eye, 

 measuring 17-18 mm. in length b}' 12.5. 



The Cape Bristle necked Bulbul — PhyUastrephus ca- 

 pensis Sw. — occurs as a resident species in our forest 

 tracts. Messrs. Center and Wood have obtained it in 

 the coast-bush in February and September. At Pirie 

 twelve specimens were brought to me by my little hunters, 

 and a thirteenth was picked up dead by myself in the 

 church -porch at Pirie on the morning of 4 November, 

 1913. What the bird was doing there away from its 

 natural habitat I do not know, nor could I understand 

 how it had gained access to the church. 



Being of a very retiring disposition it seldom shews 

 itself in the forest, and only once, on 29 June, 1911, did 

 the species come under my observation there. I hap- 

 pened to be resting on the hillside above the forest at 

 a spot from which I could i)eer over a low fringing tree 



