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puffed outwards and upwards, so as to give the appearance of a 

 pure white lump. I have seen the nest and eggs on several 

 occasions. The nest is deep, cup-shaped, very neatly made with 

 grass, various fibres, hairs, and spiders' web ; and the eggs, two or 

 three in number, are reddish white with numerous darker red spots, 

 chiefly at the thicker end. It breeds in tlic South of India in 

 August and September ; perhaps however twice a year. Burgess, 

 speaking of its notes, says " truly, it has a wonderful power of voice ; 

 at one moment uttering a low plaintive cry, at the next a shrill 

 whistle." Layard, too, who observed it in Ceylon, states that "the 

 note is a clear bell-like whistle, which, may be imitated on an 

 octave flute." One of its notes, the low plaintive one, is not unlike 

 the Avord 'Chee-too,' the last syllable much lengthened out, which 

 Horsfield gives as the note of its Malayan congener. It is said by 

 the natives of the south of India to repeat the word " Sliouhhiga, 

 Shoubhiga" before rain. 



468. lora typhia, Lin. 



Motacilla, apud Linnaeus— Blyth, Cat. 1293 — Horsf., Cat. 

 408— Sykes, Cat. 74— Mot. sub-viridis, Tickell— C/ia/t-<tt^, 

 Beng. — Taphika, or Faticl-ja tonjik, also, Beng. 



The White-winged Green Bulbul. 



Descr. — Male, above olive-green, beneath yellow ; wings black, 

 faintly edged with yellow ; greater coverts broadly tipped with 

 white ; scapulars also partly white ; tail black. The female has 

 the tail concolorous with the body, but slightly infuscated, and 

 the wings paler than in the male. 



Bill and legs pale bluish brown ; eyes light hazel. Length 5^ 

 inches ; wing 2| ; tail 2 ; bill at front j\. 



This species of lora is found in Nepal, Bengal, Central India, 

 Assam, Arrakan, and the Malayan Peninsula. Horsfield, in his 

 Catalogue, asserts that it is Col. Sykes' species from the Deccan, 

 and I believe that it was the species common at Jaulnah, as it 

 certainly was at Nagpore and Saugor. It differs in the want of 

 black on the head and back, in the bill being slightly longer, 

 in being altogether a larger bird ; .also in the color of the irides. 

 Blyth however says that a dusky tinge is often observable on the 



