204 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
sends us the following account of their habits, which we are able to 
confirm from our own personal observations :— Dwellers in woods, 
they love the deepest and most shady parts of the forest, where they 
are seldom noticed; they build their nests in low situations, amid 
the thick underwood that grows beneath the tall forest-trees, and 
seldom lay more than two eggs; if the female is disturbed, she 
utters one shrill note,as she flies away, letting her mate know 
danger is near. The notes of this bird are low and croaking, some- 
what resembling those of a frog; there is no perceptible difference 
between the male and female.” A nest forwarded by this lady is 
composed of coarse grass, moss, roots, and hair. The eggs are 
creamy white, densely blotched with purple-brown at the thick end, 
the blotches being confluent: axis, 11’’’; diam., 8’’’. 
General colour, dull olive-green ; chin, throat, and centre of belly, 
pure white; flanks, olive-green; shafts of wing and tail-feathers 
white. Length, 8’’; wing, 3’’ 8’; tail, 4’°. Mr. Andersson says 
that “‘the iris is yellow; the upper mandible, horn-colour; the 
lower bluish ; tarsus, bluish.” Captain Shelley, writing on specimens 
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shot by himself in Natal, notes as follows :—“ Beak, horn-colour, — 
inclining to white on the lower mandible; irides, hazel; legs, pale 
pinkish grey.” He adds, “They occasionally differ in size, two 
females measured respectively, 8°5 and 7:9 inches.” The above 
differences in the colour of the soft parts probably arises from 
difference of age or season. 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. pl. 112, fig. 1. 
188. ANDROPADUS IMPORTUNUS. Sombre Bulbul. 
Criniger importunus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 137. 
The “ Boschyogel,”’ as it is called, is not very rare in the neigh- | 
bourhood of Cape Town, and also occurs at the Knysna, whence we 
have seen a number of specimens obtained by the late Mr. C. J. 
Andersson, and Victorin procured it in the same district in April, 
May, and July. Le Vaillant states that he found it plentiful from _ 
Duivenbok’s River to Algoa Bay, and both Messrs. Atmore and 
Cairncross have forwarded it from Swellendam. According to Mr. 
Rickard it occurs both near East London and Port Elizabeth, and 
quite recently Lieut. Trevelyan has sent us a specimen captured in 
