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notoriously difficult and it is impossible to speak with any degree cf certainty in 
their case. 
HUGH WHISTLER, F.z.s. c.F.A.0.U. 
DHARMSALA, PUNJAB. 
[In regard to the generic name of the Bluethroat we would call attention to 
the footnote, p. 713, Vol. XXVII, where Stuart Baker in his Hand List adopts 
Cyanosylvia (Brehm) instead of Cyanecula of Blanford. Hartert however 
includes Cyanosylvia, Daulias, and Calliope all under Luscinia.—Ep1tors. ] 
No. X.—HABITS OF THE SOUTHERN SCIMITAR BABBLER 
(POMATORHINUS HORSFIELDI TRAV ANCORIENSIS),. 
While walking round the estate this morning my attention was drawn to a 
large gathering of birds at the edge of shola bordering the path. They were a 
mixed crowd and were making a tremendous noise. I could see no cause for 
the commotion in the shape of snake, owl, etc., and they seemed merely to have 
struck a rich supply of food. But what surprised me was that among them, not 
in the undergrowth but up in the trees, about 50 feet above the ground, was a 
flock of four or five Southern Scimitar Babblers (Pomatorhinus horsfieldi tra- 
vancoriensis). I have never seen these birds anywhere except skulking in thick 
cover either under the coffee, or among the lower undergrowth of the jungle and 
I would never have thought of looking for them at the height these birds were. 
This “‘ composite flock ” consisted of 8. Indian Tree-pies, Larger Racket-tailed 
Drongos, White-eyes, Red-whiskered Bulbuls, Yellow-browed Bulbuls, Orange 
Minivets, Grey-headed Flycatchers, the Scimitar Babblers and, among, the under- 
growth where they should have been, were Black-headed Babblers. 
A, P. KINLOCH, r.z.s. 
NELLIAMPATHY HILLs, 
6th August 1921. 
No. XI.—NIDIFICATION OF THE SOUTHERN RED-WHISKERED 
BULBUL (OTOCOMPSA EMERIA FUSCICAUDAT A). 
On the 22nd’ November of this year I found a deserted nest of the Southern 
Red-Whiskered Bulbul containing one egg ‘89 x ‘60’, about 4’ up in a coffee tree; 
on looking up references I was rather surprised to see that Oates gives the breed- 
ing season for this bird as ‘‘ February to end of May and June ” (vide “* Fauna 
of British India.’’ Birds, Vol. 1 and ‘‘ Nests and Eggs ”’ Vol. 1) as I recollected 
having previously found nests during the cold weather as well as in the hot 
weather (never, up here, in June). Unfortunately I found no reference in my 
notes. . 
On the 2nd December I found another nest containing two eggs, *82 x 69” and 
80 x °69”, on which the bird was sitting, so that on these hills the breeding season 
of this species is November-December and February-April. 
A. P. KINLOCH, F.z.s. 
NrLuiamMPatHy Hits, 
4th December 1921. 
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