906 Mil. A. LOVERIDGE : KOTES ON 



11 very frightened bulbul fell at my feet and commenced to hop 

 and scranible away across a patch of open ground to some rnnk 

 grass fifty feet awny. I had to run to overtake it, and, when 

 caught, it was found to have its left foot and wing firu\ly in the 

 grasp of a very fine leaf-insect {ZahaVms ophlhalmicns Walk'.) 

 some three inches in length. The strong grip of the insect was 

 astonishing, and considerable ditliculty was experienced in dis- 

 engaging it from the bulbul, which I then released (Madizini, 

 3.iii.''23). 



PycNONOTUs DODSONi subsp. 



A nest of the Momljasa Yellow-vented Bulbul containing two 

 partly-incubated eggs was found on the mainland, IVTombasa, on 

 27. xii. 20. 



PUYLLASTREPIIUS CAIiANISI SUCCOSUS llchw, 



A nest containing two eggs was taken at Jvabare on 12. i. 23. 

 It was composed of a foundation of dry sedges and leaves and 

 lined with very coarse rootlets. 



Sylviid^. 



Eremomela flaviventuis tardinata Hartert. 



A nest measuring 60 X 40 mm. deep inside was composed of 

 fine fibres, grass, and raAV cotton, lined with very fine grass and a 

 little cotton. It contained two white eggs finely speckled with 

 black and purple spots, especially thick around the larger poles. 

 They measured 15x10-5 mm. My collector shot both parent 

 birds (the types) from the nest (Sagayo, 2. xi. 22). 



OiSTicoLA nana Fischer. 



The hen bird was shot from a nest of not very definite shape 

 loosely woven of dry grass, lined with finer grass and muck down 

 of the Javan silk-cotton tree, or kapock as it is locally called. 

 The three eggs measured 14x1 1mm., and were white finely 

 streaked and speckled all over Avith pale pink. 'J'here were very 

 small embryos in the eggs (Kilosa, 17. i. 22). 



Acrocephalus griseldis Hartl.? 



I have queried this identification only as regards the nesting 

 note, as the nesting bird was not shot, but appeared to me to be 

 the Lesser Great Reed-Warbler {A. griseldis), which I had already 

 collected at the spot on 12. ii. 21, but the Great Reed-Warbler 

 {A. anondinaceus ) and the Sedge- Warbler (A. schcenohcenus) were 

 collected in the same swamp on 3. i. and 22. iv. 21 respectively. 



Two purple-blotched eggs in a nest suspended from four sedges 

 in a swamp. Bird sitting very close (31. v. 21). One egg 

 hatched (Kilosa, 1. vi. 21). 



