232 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker on the 



I took in July, 1893, was placed quite low down in a coarse 

 weedj and was visible from all directions at a distance of 

 several feet. The bird is a close sitter, and does not leave 

 the nest until oue is almost touching it. Two seems to be 

 the full complement of eggs, and I have seen a single egg 

 hard-set. In all eggs the ground-colour is a pale pink, of 

 the same delicate shade as in the eggs of Xanthixus. In 

 some the surface is freckled all over with reddish, generally 

 rather dull and dark, underlying which freckles are others of 

 the same character, but of pale dusky and })urplish neutral 

 tint ; at the larger end these markings are even more numer- 

 ous than elsewhere, and generally tend to coalesce, forming 

 a blurred ring or cap. In a few eggs, though the colour of 

 the markings is the same, they are rather larger, becoming 

 blotches more than mere specks and freckles. About four 

 clutches I have seen Avere of a much paler type, the colour 

 of the freckles being a pinky red, instead of the usual dull 

 reddish, and these eggs were much like the most common 

 type of egg of Xanthixus flavescens. In about half the eggs 

 of both types there are a few lines, short and very fine, 

 inside the ring at the larger end, and these are invariably of 

 a dark tint, either reddish brown or the colour of clotted 

 blood. 



In shape the eggs are long regular ovals, and abnormal 

 eggs tend to be even longer. The texture is the same as in 

 the eggs of Xanthixus. Twenty-four rggs average l"xO"'7. 

 They vary in length between 0"-9 and 1" 12, and in breadth 

 between 0"-66 and 0"-73. 



The birds breed principally in May and June. I have taken 

 eggs as early as the 30th April, and others again as late as 

 the 20th July. I have known of no nest taken below 4000 

 feet, and the majority I have taken were at an altitude of 

 considerably over 5000. 



31. loLE viREscENs. [Otttes, op. cit. i. p. 284.) 

 I have seen very few nests of this, the Olive Bulbul, and 

 those which I have seen have been so precisely alike that a 

 description of any one of them would do equally well for any 



