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the first mentioned. A few nests were taken from tangles of creepers, 
weeds, and brambles, and one or two from small thick patches of coarse 
ekra, in these last cases bemg generally within a few inches of the 
round. The earliest and latest dates I have recorded as having found 
eggs are respectively the 29th of April, 1891 and 11th of July, 1890. 
“ This bird, as far as I know, does not breed in these hills below 
3,000 feet and is most common above 5,000 feet. I have never taken a 
nest except towards the north and north-east of the sub-division, though 
I have met with occasional birds elsewhere. In number the eggs are 
generally three ; sometimes, though not often, four and, on one or two 
occasions, I have taken two eggs only which showed signs of incuba- 
tion to a greater or less extent. The most common type of egg has the 
ground-colour rather a decided pale pink, the markings consisting 
of freckles of a rather dark brownish-red, profusely scattered over the 
whole surface of the shell, but even more numerous towards the larger 
end, where they generally form either a ring or a badly-defined and 
irregular cap. In some few cases the markings are equally numerous 
everywhere, running into one another and occasionally forming small 
blotches where two or more of the marks coalesce. A few clutches 
that I have are much fainter in colour both as regards the markings 
and ground-colour, and these eggs bear a striking resemblance 
to the eggs of some of the bulbuls, such as Xanthivus or 
Spizeaus. Again in others of my clutches the ground is a pure 
white, so that the freckles appear to be more boldly and strongly 
defined than in the pink eggs, although such is not really the case. In 
a very few eggs, both of the white and pink types, the markings are 
confined almost entirely to the larger end in the form of a ring or cap ; 
such eggs are, however, so rare that they may be said to be abnormal. 
“In shape the eggs vary but little, being of a rather regular oval, 
very slightly, if at all, compressed towards the smaller end and always 
blunt. Abnormal eggs only differ in being somewhat lengthened ovals, 
and it is a «peculiar fact that the only two clutches I possess, in which 
the markings are confined to the larger end, are also those which are the 
most lengthened of all my eggs. 
“ The shell is firm and close in texture and often shows a fair amount 
of gloss, but for its size it is decidedly fragile. Eighty eggs that I have 
