54: Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton on the 
a spider, the ova of a large moth—preponderate. A female 
caught ov her eggs and brought to me, nest and all, rather to 
my annoyance, by one of my natives, would from the first 
moment readily take larvee and grasshoppers thrust between 
the bars of her cage, but refused bananas and other fruits. 
The length of this bird in the flesh varies from 7:5 to 
8°25 inches; the iris is chestnut-brown; the legs and feet 
are silvery bluish- or slaty-grey. 
54, PHYLLOSTROPHUS MILANJENSIS. Milanji Bulbul. 
Xenocichla milanjensis Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 9, pl. i. fig. 1. 
I first shot an example of this bird, a female, on the 
31st of July, 1899, in a wooded kloof in Mafusi’s country, 
and I subsequently observed it in that locality on several 
occasions. It is extremely common in Chirinda, though, 
owing to its solitary and retiring habits, it is not seen so 
frequently as the preceding species. When, however, in the 
hope of securing something new, I fired at a bird of sober 
plumage, half hidden in a dense mass of foliage, it nearly 
always proved to be this Bulbul; and it is in such situations, 
whether low in the undergrowth or high in the foliage of 
the larger trees, that it is usually found, sitting still or 
moving about quietly. I have, nevertheless, on a few 
occasions, usually on the first appearance of sunshine after 
continuous rains, seen it flying about briskly on the outskirts 
of the forest in pursuit of the beetles and other winged 
insects which such a change in the weather always brings 
out in abundance, and uttering at intervals a loud and 
unmusical “ eha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha,” rapidly repeated 
sometimes for many seconds on end; this note is also 
employed by the bird in calling or answering its mate. 
I have only twice found the nest of this Bulbul; on both 
occasions it was placed about sixteen feet from the ground, 
near the top of a straight slender sapling, and, looked at from 
below, reminded me not a little of that of the English Missel- 
Thrush. In the case of the first nest, taken on the 25th of 
November, a large spray of grey ‘‘ Old-man’s-beard ” lichen 
(Usnea sp.?) was draped over the fork, evidently more 
