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also trapped. Two otlier nests were taken close by this place during 

 the same month. (May), and two other nests were brought to me, 

 which could not, however, be identified with certainty. 



Three clutches are all much alike, the ground-colour is a cream)''- 

 white, and the markings consist of small irregular blotches of rather 

 light reddish and other underlying ones of pale lavender and pale 

 brown. The primary markings are fairly numerous everywhere, and 

 very numerous at the larger end where they form a broad ring, 

 the spots here running into one another ; the secondary spots arc 

 few in number and are scattered here and there over the whole 

 surface. 



A fourth clutch is the same in ground-colour, perhaps a rather 

 deeper pink, and is thickly marked everywhere with purple, ranging 

 from a dark reddish -purple to a colour so deep as to appear almost 

 black ; the underlying marks are of rather dark inky grey. The 

 character of the marks range from specks and freckles to big 

 blotches over *2" long by •1''' broad. The general tint of all four of 

 these clutches is rather bright. 



The fifth clutch is the most boldly and brightly marked of all, 

 resembling closely the last mentioned, but not having the smaller 

 specks and freckles. All these eggs can be matched with eggs of 

 3folpasfes, but they are much brighter, handsomer eggs than 99 in 

 100 of that genus, and have a certain character of their own, though 

 it is hard to express what it is in words. 



They are I think stouter than most Bulbul's eggs (not Criniger) 

 and they have a slight gloss. In shape they are rather broad ovals, 

 somewhat compressed towards the smaller end, but not pointed. The 

 fourteen eggs average "87" X '58" and vary in length between -84'' 

 and -91" and in breadth between '56'' and '60." 



This bird is very rare here, with the exception of in the low-lying 

 forests to the extreme north, where it appears to be fairly common. 

 It keeps entirely to the interior of the forest, preferring such as is 

 rather thin as regards the tree-growth, but which has plenty of scrub 

 undero-rowth. I have noticed that its flight is quicker and far more 

 level than most Bulbuls, but this is almost the only thing about it that 

 I have observed : I have not heard its note even beyond the jarring 

 cries made by such as had been caught in nooses ; indeed, it appears 



