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somewhat smaller, and certainly they appear neater. In all the nests 

 I have taken, a large amount of moss has been used in the construc- 

 tion, and one nest, which I took in May, 1892, at Hungrum, 

 (5,800 feet), was made entirely of this material, with the exception 

 of a few soft stems which were employed to bind the whole to the 

 tree, in conjunction with the usual amount of cobwebs. 



I found this bird in 1891 breeding on the precipitous hills 

 surrounding the upper part of the valley of the Laishung River. 

 These hills, owing probably to their great steepness, have but little 

 soil on them, with the exception of that which is washed by the 

 rains into deep crevices or into the numerous narrow ledges. In 

 such places a considerable amount of scrub jungle grows, inter- 

 spersed with numerous stunted trees, which seem to die early, for 

 two out of every three are dead and rotten. It was on these 

 dead trees that the birds had selected positions for their nests ; nor 

 were the branches selected those near the top or outside of the trees, 

 such as would be usually made use of, but all the three nests I 

 found were placed in the first bifurcation of the main trunk, and 

 were all within fifteen feet of the ground. As I was engaged at 

 the time in stalking serow I had to leave the nests alone, but a 

 native was sent a few days afterwards and found one nest still 

 empty and two containing two eggs each. The nest is generally 

 built in much the same kind of position as that of H. psaroides, 

 but, I think, more often on lower bushes. 



The eggs are, of course, quite un distinguishable from those of the 

 other black bulbuls as far as coloration, shape, and texture go, 

 though the eggs I have taken average a shade larger. The 

 eighteen eggs measured averaged 1 '12 in. X '78 in. 



The largest pair are abnormally large, measuring 1-24 in. X '81 in. 

 I have no others nearly this size, the next largest being 1*18 in. X '76 in. 

 The smallest egg is '97 in. X "69 in. I have taken one clutch of eggs 

 which differ much from any other eggs of either this species or 

 H. 2^saroides, the ground-colour is a rather warm pink, and the 

 markings consist of rather numerous bold blotches of bright red, 

 each spot being very well defined, and no two running together or 

 blurring one another's edges by too close proximity; they are 

 singularly handsome eggs. 



