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colour, the streaks, particularly of grey, being finer and 
scantier and, though still arranged in a zone, tending to 
stray more completely over the larger end of the egg. A 
third type, of which I have one clutch only, is pure white in 
ground-colour, with merely a few pale madder spots and 
streaks encircling the larger end, in combination with the 
faintest of grey markings. Eggs which I have measured 
vary from 22°5 to 24 mm. in length, and from 16 to 17 mm. 
in breadth. 
The sitting birds of this species are remarkably tame 
and bold, and I have, on more than one occasion, touched 
their bills as they sat and offered them insects; these they 
have never yet accepted, at least while I was in sight, 
but have remained unmoved. In January I photographed 
a sitting bird: the nest was about four feet from the 
ground in a dense thicket, so that 1 had to break away a 
number of swall branches and twigs, some within a few 
inches of the nest; and, owing to the dry branches and other 
débris covering the ground, it was even then by no means an 
easy task to get the tripod and camera into position. But 
the bird sat through it all, only once, when a leg of the 
tripod suddenly slipped, raising one wing, as is its wont 
when hunting for insects, and once or twice making a faint 
sound of protest. Having given a two-minutes’ exposure at 
three feet, I was encouraged to move the camera to within 
eighteen inches and there repeated the operation, finally 
leaving a small earthworm on the edge of the nest, under the 
bird’s bill, as a token of my appreciation of her pluck. On 
another occasion an individual which had left the nest on my 
approach returned immediately and resumed her position on 
the eggs, racing round to me quite defiantly as I stood within 
three feet of her; while, on yet a third occasion, a bird 
sitting on a perfectly empty nest refused to move until 
touched, and then remained, abusing me heartily, within 
a few yards. This Bulbul is insectivorous rather than 
frugivorous. I have examined a number of the crops, and 
though Gumiti and other berries are sometimes present, 
insects—larve, small beetles, grasshoppers, a large bug, 
