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bird is most dreadfully pugnacious and quarrelsome, and whilst feeding on 
these bushes will allow no other bird to come near. I found out this trait 
very soon after I first became acquainted with the bird. I was engaged in 
watching a small party of Flower-peckers (Dicceum olivacewm) feeding on 
a babul tree, when a green bulbul appeared on the scene and prompily 
commenced chasing the unoffending small birds who, one by one, were forced 
to take shelter in a densely foliaged tree close by. The same day a King-crow, 
a bird usually so bumptious and aggressive, was badly hustled and punished by a 
pair of C.aurifrons. This occurred some time between the 25th November and 
the 5th December, so could not well have been the result of any grievance 
which the bulbuls had against the shrike on nesting grounds. They do not 
mind what kind of bird they bully, and if they can get nothing else to quarrel 
with, will fight amongst themselves. ‘Twice have I picked up birds mortally 
wounded in these fights. Once, as I was walking to Cutcherry, I noticed two of 
these birds fighting in a cotton tree, and whilst I watched, one fell to the ground 
dead. Another time I was out for a stroll with a planterand his nephew, when, 
just in front, two of these birds fluttered fighting to the ground. One of my 
companions at once rushed forward towards the birds, whereupon one flew away, 
but the other, after a few convulsive movements, lay dead. On yet a third 
occasion, one of my servants succeeded in catching two males by rushing forward. 
and throwing his pwygree over them as they struggled in some grass, too 
engrossed in their quarrel to notice his approach. On this occasion neither 
bird was very badly wounded, though both of them showed signs of blood on 
the shoulders and heads. 
The only bird of its own size with which it does not care to compete is its 
first cousin C. hardwichii, and rather than fight with this bird, it will even 
leave a choice feeding-ground. 
During the cold weather it assembles in fairly large flocks, generally num- 
bering nearly a dozen individuals, though sometimes only three or four, and 
very rarely they may be seen alone or in pairs. The separate members of the 
flock are very independent, and they often wander some distance from one 
another ; but, if driven away, they make off in the same direction, and keep up 
an. intermittent conversation between themselves. 
They seem to be almost entirely insectivorous, and of the birds which I have 
examined, none contained seeds or other vegetable food in their stomachs, with 
two exceptions. 
These two had in them numerous small black seeds which had been taken 
from the pods of a bean-like climbing plant, and when I carefully examined the 
plant, I found that many of these pods, which had burst, were crowded with 
