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Total lengthy 8.40; tail, 3.75 ; wing, 3.60. 

 The female resembles the male. 



Distribution. — ^The wooded districts from Cape Province 

 to the Transvaal. 



Habits. — These birds inhabit the dense scrub and thick bush 

 in pairs. The nest is neat and cup shaped, and composed of 

 moss and lichen and lined with fibres. It is placed in the 

 midst of a thick bush, usually a thorny one. Clutch, 2. Eggs 

 pale grey blotched with olive. 



Cape Bulbul {Pycnonotus capensis). (Vol. II., p. 13.) 



Description. — Male : above and below dark brown, darkest 

 on the head and wings. Under tail coverts bright yellow. Head 

 slightly crested. A bare white ring of skin encircles the eye. 

 This skin is sometimes reddish with gorged blood. Iris black. 

 Bill and legs black. 



The female resembles the male. 



Length, 8.50 \ tail, 4.00 ; wing, 4.00. 



Distribution. — Cape Province only. 



Habits. — The Cape bulbul is common in all the wooded 

 districts. It and the other bulbuls are very destructive to fruit. 

 It associates in small flocks of from 6 to 15 birds, except at the 

 breeding season. The nest is in a thick bush or in the fork of 

 a tree ; it is composed of small roots, lined with hair and 

 feathers. Clutch, 3 to 4 ; eggs pale, spotted with bright pink 

 and blotched with darker pink and pale purple ; size, .90 by .68. 



Cape Penduline Tit {.Egithalus capensis). (Vol. II., 

 p. 18.) 



Description. — Male : greyish-olive above, changing to 

 yellowish-olive on the rump and upper tail coverts. Crown 

 greyer than the back. A ring round the eye. The eyebrow and 

 sides of face dirty white. Under parts yellowish. Iris yellowish- 

 brown. 



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