266 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1892. 



NiDiFiCATiON. — The nest is a true bulbul's in sliape and general 

 appearance. Four nests taken during June 1890 shew the differences 

 of construction and material very well. 



No. 1, taken on the first of June, was made principally' of dead 

 bamboo leaves^ bound round about with fine stalks of weeds and a 

 little bark, with here and there a tiny twig. These are all firmly 

 fastened together with cobwebs. The lining is of coarse grass stems 

 and fine bents. The nest is fairly neat, and all the leaves are kept 

 in their places by the other materials. The internal dimensions are, 

 diameter 3*, depth I'l*. 



The second nest is made entirely of stalks, small twigs and coarse 

 grasses, lined with finer materials of the same kind. This nest, if 

 held up to the light, can be seen through in places everywhere. It 

 is rather larger than the last, the diameter being 3*3* ; the depth is 

 just the same. 



No. 3 is exactly like No. 2 as regards materials, with the 

 exception that there are two dead leaves in the base work, but it is 

 much deeper. In diameter it is barely 3*, whilst in depth it is fully 

 r6". This is an unusually deep nest. 



No. 4 is the most massive nest of all, and is composed of leaves, 

 moss, grass and stalks, strongly though untidily intertwined, and 

 still further secured by numerous cobwebs. The lining is very 

 scanty, consisting of hardly a dozen fine grass stems and a couple 

 of coarse, soft stalks. It is less than an inch deep, and is 3 '2* in 

 diameter internally ; externally it is 4*9" by a little over 2*. 



In 1887 I took a nest of this bird which was lined with a small 

 amount of sambhar hair. This shewed plainly by its appearance 

 that it had been collected from the dried excretse of a feline, and a 

 short search discovered that the builder had got it from the roadside, 

 about twenty yards from her nest. Another taken in 1888 was lined 

 with buffalo hair. These are the only two, out of some twenty-five 

 which I have taken, lined with anything but a little grass or some 

 similar material. 



Most nests are placed at a good height from the ground, somewhere 

 between twenty-five and forty feet from it, but I have also taken 

 them from much lower positions, and sometimes even from low bushes 

 not above five feet up. They may be placed either in a horizontal 



