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of 4'35". It is also a browner bird ttan most of tliose I liave seen 

 here, 



I have been able to discover no difference whatsoever between the- 



sexes. 



NiDincATioN. — Personalljy I have taken two nests only of this 

 species and have seen but two others, all of which were much alike 

 in shape, materials, &c. Outwardly, all four nests were composed 

 of fine elastic twigs and coarse fern roots, these materials being 

 very strongly and closely interlaced with one another. Inside this 

 are more twigs and roots, a few dead stems of weeds, and, in one case, 

 a few scraps of a long fern mos& ; none of these are at all intertwisted, 

 being merely wound round and round in the same manner as is 

 the lining, which is composed entirely of very fine shreds of grass. 

 The nests are fairly compact and rather stout, and measure externally 

 from 3*8" to 4'2'' in diameter by about I'o" to r75" in depth, inter- 

 nally they measure about 3'^ by \" or a little more. 



In none of these nests was the light colouring of the materials, 

 remarked on by Hume in the nest found by Mandelli, at all conspi- 

 cuous. The first nest I took was found in a thick bush growing by 

 the side of a path zig-zagging up a steep hill. The parent birds 

 flew out of the bush on my approach and kept hovering about, callr 

 ing very loudly, much in the way the common Bengal Bulbul does, 

 but, in spite of my having noticed whence they flew, I was unable to 

 find out the nest, and at last came to the conclusion that they had not 

 begun to build. I therefore left the place and went on my way, but 

 as I got to the turn of the path, just above the bush, one of the birds 

 flew into it again, so I returned to have another search, and this time, 

 noticing very carefully whence it flew, I succeeded in finding the 

 prize. It w^as placed quite close to the ground, and, besides being 

 hidden by numerous thick twigs and branches, was half buried in dead 

 leaves and also concealed by a thick creeper which grew upon the bush. 

 This nest was built in fairly thick forest with dense undergrowth, and 

 the two nests which were brought to me were said to have been found 

 in much the same kind of place. The fourth nest was taken from a 

 clump of small bamboos growing in mixed scrub and bamboo jungle. 

 All the four nests were found in June 1 888 and 1 889, and were 

 taken at a place between 5,000 and 6,000 ft. high. 



