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being "usually either pinkish or purplish white (sometimes 

 actually pink) in ground-colour, freckled, blotched, and 

 spotted, usually all over, though more densely in the form 

 of a zone round the large end, with brown-madder or various 

 other shades of rich purplish brown. Handsome types are 

 those in which the markings take the form of large irregular 

 blotches of (1) the same rich purplish brown, (2) light chestnut. 

 Another type approaches a form of the Tree-Pipit's egg, 

 being thickly and finely mottled with different shades of 

 purplish brown, sometimes to such an extent as to obscure 

 the ground-colour, the markings being, in this case too, 

 densest and darkest as a rule about the larger end. Iron- 

 grey spots or blotches, often pale and apparently underlying, 

 are present in almost every case. The measurements of 

 eggs in my collection vary from 20 to 25 mm. in length by 

 from 15 to 18 mm. Only in one case have these Bulbuls 

 shown any excitement on my visiting their nests ; they 

 almost invariably leave the nest quietly and one sees and 

 hears no more of either bird — strange behaviour in a bird 

 which is so noisy over snakes and hawks. 



In the Jihu, in common with so many other birds there 

 of the grass-jungle and open woods, they were usually to be 

 found at the Leonotis-blooTcas. As it is a matter of dispute 

 whether this bird's ravages in the settler's orchard is 

 counterbalanced or not by its destruction of harmful insects, 

 a detailed list of the stomach-contents of nine Bulbuls, 

 secured at one shot while destroying one of my papaws, may 

 be of interest : — Mulberries only ; a large seed and much 

 insect debris, including a white ant ; fruit-pulp (papaw) 

 and one Physalis seed ; three Leguminous seeds and slight 

 insect remains ; much debris of a large metallic bug, 

 common on the "Musuguta" ^a large Croton) ; two or 

 three seeds of Plnjsalis edulis ; three Reduviid bugs only ; 

 nil ; skins of berries. Of six other stomachs examined half 

 have contained fruit (wild figs, Lvppia, &c.), and the other 

 three insects. Eight of these Bulbuls averaged 8*3 inches 

 in length, with a variation of nearly an inch, 7 7b (an 

 exceptionally small specimen) to 8-7. 



