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struction. The first nest I ever saw was found by me when 

 marching; from one camp to another. The track or pathway 

 by which I was going wound steeply upwards, in short zig- 

 zags, through evergreen forest containing a dense under- 

 growth of all kinds of hushes. From one of the densest 

 patches of these bushes a pair of Striated Green Bulbuls flew 

 and settled again close by, swearing loudly, and evidently in 

 a great state of excitement. Of course I at once commenced 

 to search for a nest, but could find none, and gave up the 

 hunt to continue my way. I had gone only a few paces, 

 however, when one of the birds returned, and, noting the 

 exact spot whence it again flew away on my approach, I at 

 last succeeded in finding the nest. It was built amongst 

 a mass of twigs in a thick bush within a few inches of the 

 bank, and was also partially hidden by fallen leaves and a 

 creeper, which grew across it. The nest was in three quite 

 distinct parts, the outermost being composed entirely of fine 

 elastic twigs and coarse fern-roots, both strongly and closely 

 interlaced one with another ; inside this outer wall are more 

 twigs and roots and a good many stems of small weeds, but 

 all these materials are merely wound loosely round and 

 round, and not interlaced one with another, just as is the 

 true lining, which consists of very fine strips of grass. Two 

 nests brought to me by natives very closely resembled this 

 one already described, and were found in the same forest, 

 all at an elevation of some 5800 feet. The only other nest I 

 have seen was taken by myself from a clump of bamboos 

 growing in mixed bamboo- and scrub-jungle, which had 

 sprung up where the forest had first been cleared and the 

 land cultivated and again abandoned. This nest differed 

 somewhat from the others in that it had a certain number of 

 fronds of fern-moss used in its construction. 



The nests are all very strongly and compactly built, and 

 in shape are rather more shallow than hemispheres, averaging 

 outwardly some 4" in diameter by 1"'63 in depth, whilst the 

 cavity measures about 3" by rather more than 1". 



All four nests were taken in the month of June. Three 

 of these nests contained each three eggs, but I have only 



