150 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
On 30th March I discovered another nest of this bird in 
the vicinity of Sodepur. The nest seemed to have been 
recently completed. It would appear therefore, that this 
bird is an early breeder in our district. 
The heat this year (1924) has been excessive in March, in 
which month the average departure of temperature from 
the normal was +6°F. It may be argued that this abnormal 
heat is responsible for the ‘early breeding, of both the 
King-crow and the Oriole. But, really speaking, the birds in 
question began their breeding activities in February in which 
month the average temperature was not more than 2° F. in ex- 
cess of normal. This slight excess could not have influenced 
the birds to breed so much earlier than their normal breeding 
season. The maximum day temperature of the atmosphere in 
Bengal when the Orioles and King-crows are usually known to 
breed oe e. betwten the end of April and June), is always above 
100 In Northern India and Rajputana the King-crow 
seneraliy lays from May. In the former region the temperature 
in that month is nowhere less than 110° ¥. and in Rajputana 
never de than 118° F. The Oriole lays from April, when the 
temperature in Northern India exceeds 105° F. Now, the 
highest temperature recorded at Alipore this year in February 
was 90°6° F. This is less than the temperature in which these 
birds are usually known to breed. 
Aegithina tiphia tiphia (Linn.). 
On the very same day ie., the 16th March, when I dis- 
Hume’s ‘Nests and Eggs’’ we read, ‘The Common lora 
breeds in different localities from May to September.” In 
the recently published second edition of the Fauna of British 
India (Birds), Mr. Stuart Baker, however, puts the period a 
little earlier, ‘‘ from April to Ju uly.” 
The nest of the Lora, I discovered, was a tiny thin-walled 
cup placed in the fork formed by a few vertical twigs of @ 
mango tree at a height of about twenty-five feet from the 
ground. There were three eggs in the nest. This nest must 
have been built sary in March considering that on the 16th 
there were three 
This also is anita an unusually early record. 
Otocompsa emeria emeria (Linn.). 
The red-whiskered Bulbul (O. emeria) is one of the two 
common species of the Bulbuis of the plains of Bengal. The 
other is the Bengal Red-vented Bulbul—Molpastes haemorrhous 
bengalensis, The latter bird is not only commonly met with 
