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XTbe Westing of JBulbuls in daptivitv>- 



By A. SuTCIJFFK. 

 As our esteemed Editor has requested me to give a description of the 

 nest and eggs of my Bulbuls I will endeavour to do so. To start from the 

 commencement, I exchanged some West Indian birds with Mr. Frost for a 

 pair of Bulbuls, which he called Philipine Bulbuls.* The cock bird is ashy- 

 grey on the breast, with a black head and short crest, much darker colour 

 OH the back, and scaled like a Ring Ouzel, a long blackish tail, tipped with 

 white and a yellow vent ; the hen is very similar, but a trifle smaller, and 

 not so distinct in her markings. 



NEST & EGGS OF PHILIPPINE BUI.BUL. 



When I first received the birds, they were in very poor condition, 

 rough in plumage and without tails, so I placed them in a large flight cage 

 in my bird room, where they soon recovered strength ami grew tails. I then 

 transferred them to the flight, turning them out into my garden aviary in 

 April, where they seemed always to sit together, squabbling and chuckling 

 all day long. On July the 31st I noticed the cock bird carrying some shreds 

 of cocoanut fibre, which he had evidently pulled out of a cocoanut husk ; 

 on August 2nd I first noticed the nest, which was built in a Ilartz-cage 

 hanging over the entrance of the feeding shed (I was obliged to remove the 

 nest from the cage, in order to get the photograph). On August the 5th the 



* Oh'compsa /eitC'fis. 



