4 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



knowledge of their habits will probably show that they also breed in 

 May. 



They do not break up their flocks until very late in April, so that 

 it is unlikely that they will be found building in that month. 



They eat both fruits and insects, but principally the latter, 



CrINIGEK FjfiAVEOLITS. 



The White -Throated Bulbuj,, 



JerdonB. of In , Vol. II., p. 83. Gates' Fauna of India, Vol. I., p. 

 255. id. Hume's Nests and Eggs, Vol. I., p. 162. Murray's Avifauna, 

 Vol. II., p. 84. Hume, Cat. No. 451. 



Description. — Forehead, lores and cheeks and a superoilium greyish- 

 white; ear-coverts grey, varying very much in depth; chin and throat 

 white ; remainder of head light olives-brown, the feathers all more or less 

 edged with yellowish-green ; whole upper plumage and lesser wing- 

 coverts olive-green, remainder of wings brown, the quills edged with 

 olive yellow on the outer webs ; lower plumage bright, light King's 

 yellow ; tail rufescent-brown. 



Bill pale greyish -blue, gaj)e and mouth still paler; irides deep 

 red; legs greyish-horny, pale bluish-horny or fleshy-grey. 



Length 8*7 in.; tail 3-3 in.; wing 37 in. ; tarsus '75 in.; bill at 

 front "68 in. and from gape '9 in. 



Gates makes no mention of any white supercilium, but I find some 

 trace of this in all the birds obtained in these Hills, In the majo- 

 rity it is well developed and very strongly defined, but in others it is 

 much less distinct though always perfectly apparent. The grey of 

 the ear-coverts, as above mentioned, varies very much ; in a few 

 specimens it is no darker than the lores and cheeks, whilst in some 

 it is sufficiently dark to make a decided contrast with those parts. 



NiDiFiCATiON. — The nests, of which I have taken some thirty, are 

 all much of the same type, and are made as follows : — The outside of 

 the nest is composed of dead leaves and bamboo spates rather 

 strongly fastened together with a few hair-like fern roots and a 

 number of elastic stems of weeds ; inside the outer shell, which can 

 be stripped off without damaging the remainder of the nest, there 

 are a few more dead leaves mry strongly bound together by innu- 



