] 86 CRATEEOPODID.T5. 



Miss Cockburn, writing from Kotagherry, sjiys : — " The Yellow- 

 browed Bulbul is common on the less elevated slopes of the 

 Nilghiris, where it is often seen feeding upon guavas, loquots, pears, 

 peaches, &c. They lay generally in April and May. 



" Their nests are constructed very much like those of the common 

 Bulbuls, except that, instead of being placed in the forked branches 

 of trees, they are suspended bet\\een two twigs, and fastened to 

 them by cobwebs, the inside being neatly lined with fine grass. T\\ o 

 nests of this bird were found, eacli containing two fresh eggs, of a 

 pretty pinkish salmon colour, Avitli a dark ring at the thick end ; but 

 another nest had three nearly tchite eggs! The whole structure of 

 the nests was slight and thin, and the eggs could be plainly seen 

 through. The notes of the Yellow-browed Bulbul are loud and 

 repeated often." 



Writing on the birds of Ceylon, Colonel Legge remarks : — " I 

 once found the nest of this bird in the Pasdun-Korale forests in 

 August ; little or nothing, however, is known of its breeding-habits 

 in Ceylon, so that it most likely commences earlier than that month 

 to rear its brood. My nest was placed in the fork of a thin sapling 

 about 8 feet from the ground. It was of large size for such a bird, 

 the foundation being bulky and composed of small twigs, moss, and 

 dead leaves, supporting a cup of about 2| inches in diameter, Avhicli 

 was constructed of moss, lined with fine roots ; the upper edge of 

 the body of the nest was woven round the supporting branches. 

 The bottom of the nest was in the fork." 



The eggs of this species sent to me by Mr. AVait from Coonoor 

 are totally unlike any other egg of this family with which I am 

 acquainted. They remind one more of the eggs of Stoparola 

 welanops or one of the N'dtavas than anything else. The eggs are 

 moderately long and rather perfect ovals, almost devoid of gloss, 

 and with a dull white or pinkish-\\hite ground, S])eckled more or 

 less thickly over the whole surface \\'\\\\ rather pale brownish red or 

 piidv. The specklings becoming couiiuent at the large end, where 

 they form a dull irregular mottled ca]). Other sjiecimens received 

 from Miss Cockburn from Kotagherry exhibit the same general 

 characters ; butthe maj(jrity of them are consid(U'ably elongated eggs, 

 approaching, so far as shape is concerned, the Jfi/jisljuics type. In 

 some eggs only tlu; faintest trace of pale pinkish mottling touards 

 the large end is observable ; in others, the whole surface of the egg 

 is tliickly freckled and mottled all over, but most densely at the 

 large end, with salmon-])ink or pale pinkish brown. 



In length the eggs ^ary from 0'9 to 1"03, and in breadth from O-t! I 

 to 0-7.* 



* Pycnonotus anai.is (Ilorsf.). The YcUow-vcntvd Bulbul. 



Otoconipsa analis {Ilor^f.), Hume, Cut. no. 452 sex. 



Mr. J. Darling, Junior, writes : — "T foiiiul llie nest oniii.s T'ulhiil ul- Siiliinff, 

 in tli(^ Malay peninsula, on the 14lli February. Tlio nebt, was built in a bunh in 

 8ec(Mi(iary jungle, with a few trees scattered about. It was in a I'ork (J feet IVoni 

 tlic ground. The foundation was ol' dried leaACS, tiien line twigs, and lined 



