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acquainted, it being excessively common about Tipperah, and I 

 have never seen a specimen of it mature or immature that could 

 be confounded with this species. 



Davison, who was the first to secure specimens of it, says : — 

 " As far as my observations extend it is confined to the Andamans, 

 and even there is comparatively rare. It keeps to the forest 

 generally along the edges of the paths, either in pairs or singly. 

 It is very silent, I have never heard its note.'" 



This species would appear to be a permanent resident, as we 

 have specimens killed from December to August. 



460.— Otocompsa emeria, Shaw. (40.) 



I have already noticed this species, Stray Feathers, 1873, 

 p. 309, and have nothing to add to what I there stated. 



Davison says : — "This red-whiskered bulbul is exceedingly com- 

 mon at the Andamans, but I did not observe it at the Nicobars, 

 except a small party in Camorta, which were probably those sent 

 there from the Andamans by Mr. Homfray ; they were in the cot- 

 ton field, and had apparently made themselves quite at home. On 

 the 16th of January eight or ten of these were turned loose at the 

 village of Orong on Car Nicobar, and when I saw them several 

 hours afterwards they seemed to have taken quite kindly to 

 the place, and were looking for insects among the brushwood 

 bordering the jungle. In habits they are similar to the other 

 members of the same genus, frequenting by preference gardens 

 and open country generally, living both on fruit and insects. I 

 found a nest of this species in a low mangrove bush growing 

 quite at the edge of the water ; it (the nest) was cup-shaped, and 

 composed of roots, dried leaves, and small pieces of bark, lined 

 with finer roots and cocoanut fibres ; it contained three eggs with 

 a pinkish white ground, thickly mottled and blotched with pur- 

 plish red, the spots coalescing at the thicker end to form a zoue ; 

 the eggs were unfortunately broken, and that to such an extent 

 as to be not worth keeping." 



This bird is a permanent resident. A young bird killed on 

 the 22nd May has no crest at all, and the top of the head is 

 a brown scarcely darker than the back. The under tail coverts 

 are a pale salmon red. There is no red eye streak, and the place 

 where it should be is bare. In young birds killed on the 8th 

 June the crest is partially developed and of a dark hair brown ; 

 but there is no trace still of the red eye streak, and the lower tail 

 coverts are still of the same dingy orange, or salmon red. In 

 birds killed towards the end of July, the crest is fully developed, 

 most of the feathers of the forehead, and anterior half of the 

 crown, have become black ; a few tiny red feathers have begun to 



