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throughout the year .on the hills round the valley of Nepal, but 

 never tenants the central woods. Jt is generally found in bushes 

 and bush trees, not in high tree-forest ; and is commonly seen in 

 pairs. The breeding-season appears to be May and June. A nest 

 was taken on the 6th June, which contained two fresh eggs. The 

 nest was somewhat oval in shape, measuring 3 - 35 inches in length 

 and 2 - 5 across ; the egg-cavity was about 1 inch deep in the centre, 

 and the bottom of the nest 1-25 thick. It was attached to a 

 slender fork of a tree, and was composed externally of ferns, dry 

 leaves, roots, grass, and a little moss, bound together with fine 

 black hair-like fibres, which were wound round the prongs of the 

 fork so as regularly to suspend the nest like an Oriole's. There 

 was a regular lining, distinct from the body of the nest, composed 

 of fine long yellowish grass-stems, and a little cobweb was spread 

 here and there over the branches of the fork and the outside of 

 the nest. The eggs are rather long ovals, smaller at one end, and 

 fairly glossy ; they measure 1-0 by 0-7, and 097 by 07. The 

 ground-colour is pure pinkish white, abundantly speckled and 

 finely spotted with reddish purple ; the spots closely crowded to- 

 gether at the large end, but not confluent, forming in one egg a 

 broadish zone, and in the other a cap ; in the latter egg there are 

 a few faint underlying stains of purplish inky at the large end." 



Two eggs sent me by Mr. Mandelli from Darjeeling, said to belong 

 to this species, are elongated ovals, much pointed towards the small 

 end. The shell is fine and fairly glossy ; the ground-colour a dull 

 salmon-pink, and they are profusely and minutely freckled, speckled, 

 and streaked (so densely at the large end that the markings there 

 are almost confluent) with dull reddish purple. 



The eggs measure l - 06 and I'll by 0-67. 



277. Alcurus striatus (BL). The Striated Green Bulbul. 

 Alcurus striatus (BL), Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 81. 

 Mr. Mandelli sent me a nest of this species which was found, 

 he said, on the 8th May about 4 feet from the ground amongst the 

 foliage of a kind of prickly bamboo growing out of the crevices of a 

 patch of large stones near Lebong (elevation 5000 feet), and con- 

 tained two eggs nearly ready to hatch. The nest is a shallow cup, 

 about 3-75 inches in diameter and 1-5 in height externally, composed 

 entirely of fine brown fibrous roots, a little bound together outside 

 with wool and the silk of cocoons and with two or three little bits 

 of moss stuck about it, and sparingly lined with hair-like grass. 

 It is altogether a light brown nest, no dark material being used in 

 it at all. The cavity is 2-75 inches in diameter and about 1 deep. 



278. Molpastes haemorrhous (Gm.). The Madras Red-vented 



Bulbul. 

 Pycnonotush«morrhous(6rm.),,7en2. B. Ind. ii, p. 94. 

 Molpastes pusillus (BL), Hume, Rough Draft N. fy E. no. 462. 



The Madras Eed-vented Bulbul, which by the way extends 



