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refuses to call them Bulbuls, and designates them as Chloropses. 



These are about the same size as Molpastes Bulbuls, but arrayed 



in beautiful bright green plumage. Unlike the Bulbuls proper 



the hen differs more or less from the cock in appearance. They 



are strictly arboreal in habits, and go about either singly or in 



pairs. They feed chiefly on insects. 



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Bibliography. 



Cunningham. Some Indian friends and Acquaintances, 



pp. 87-94. 



E. H. A. The Common Bhds of Bombay, pp. 87-90. 



Finn. The Birds of Calcutta, (2nd Edit.) pp. 22-27. 



Finn. Garden and Aviary Birds of India, pp. 23-25. 



Hume. Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, (2nd Edit.) 



Vol. I. pp. 155-157; 163-191. 

 Jerdon. The Birds of India, Vol. II. pp. 77-97. 



Oates. Birds of British hidia, Vol. I. pp. 234-239; 



252-297. 



IResting of the dirl Bunting. 



(Emberiza cirlns). 

 By W. E. Teschemaker, B.A. 



When I recently wrote some account in Bird Notes of the 

 habits of the Cirl Bunting, I said that it had always been one of 

 my ambitions to breed this species. I am now able to give some 

 details of its nesting in my aviary this summer. 



I began the season with two males and three females but, 

 after the males had each selected partners, I drafted out the re- 

 maining hen. The first to go to nest was the old hen which had 

 been in the aviary for three years and could be easily recognised 

 by her much brighter colouring, for, as with the Yellowhammer, 

 this species seems to increase in beauty with increasing age. I 

 found her sitting on the 13th of April in a well-built nest in a box 

 shrub on two eggs. A photograph of this nest is reproduced in 

 this issue, and is interesting I think because it shows how very 

 close an imitation of the type of nest usually built by this species 

 in a state of freedom my birds were able to produce with the 

 limited supply of material at their disposal. For the usual horse 

 hair lining they have substituted very fine grass. 



