[So far as your description is complete, jour bird appears to be the 

 one described below, the particulars of which I have "leaned from Jerdon's 

 Birds of India. It is uncommon, in fact, rare on the British and Continental 

 Markets, but has been known at the Zoological Gardens since 1880 or there- 

 abouts I believe (am speaking from memory.)] 



White-Browkd Bush Bui<Bur«. 

 Jkrdon. Lxos luieolus. ) Native 



Tkmminck. Lxos viresceus. ) Poda-pigh. 



"Description. — Above dull brownish olive green, palest in the head, 

 where it is slightly ashy, and yellowish on the rump ; quills and coverts 

 edged with brighter green ; over the eye to the ear-coverts, and from the 

 base of the upper mandible extending below the eye, obscure white; chin 

 and base of lower mandible, pale clear yellow ; lower parts whitish ashy, 

 tinged with pale yellow ; the breast darker with browish grey, and the vent 

 and under tail-coverts pale yellow. 



Bill blackish ; legs dark plumbeous ; irides blood-red ; length "]V, 

 wing 3!*, tail 3§V 



This is a tolerably common bird in many parts of the South of India ; 

 rare in others. It is not found in the forests of Malabar, but in low jungle 

 ill that province it is common, and on the skirts of forests occasionally. 

 In the Carnatic it is tolerably common in bushy jungle, and even in gar- 

 dens, in wooded districts ; also throughout the northern Circais to Grom- 

 soor; and Tickall found it in Central India. It is not however known at 

 Jubbulpore, Sangore, Nagpore, nor Mhow, nor in the bare tableland of the 

 Deccan. 



It associates less in flocks than most of the family, being usually seen 

 alone, but it avoids observation, and keeps to the thickets. It flies about 

 from bush to bush with a fine loud, clear, thrush-like warble, and feeds 

 entirely on fruit of various kinds. I found the nest in my garden at 

 Wellore. It was rather loosely made with roots, grain and hair, placed in a 

 hedge; and the eggs, four in number, were reddish-white, with darker 

 lake-red spots, exceedingly like those of the common Bnlbul. 



'• I see that the lxos viresceus of Teniminck, which in my Catalogue I 

 considered the same in this bird, now ranks as an LLypsipse/es." 



[I am sure an account and full description of this bird would be of 

 general interest, if Mrs. Warren Vernon will kindly supply same. — Ed.] 



THE SHAMA AND RUBY THROAT. 



Sir, — Will any member kindly give experience of hen Shama's des- 

 cription, and also if the cock bird is very violent towards her? I have a 

 hen, at least the dealer asserts it is such ; but the cock bird simply tries to 

 kill her and I cannot let them be near each other. Mv hen is a dirtv small 



