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generally covered with the pollen and sweets derived from the 
flowers. It pairs in April, and appears fond of the wild mulberries 
and other forest berries which then abound in some of the glens. 
In March, at an elevation of 5,000 feet, I saw them feeding on the 
wild cherries. They breed during April, May, and June, making a 
rather neat cup-shaped nest, which is usually placed in the bifurcation 
of a horizontal branch of some tall tree ; the bottom of it is composed 
of thin dead leaves and dried grasses, and the sides of fine woody 
stalks of plants, such as those used by Pycnonotus leucogenys, and 
they are well plastered over externally with spiders' webs ; the lining 
is sometimes of very fine tendrils, at other times of dry grasses, 
fibrous lichens, and thin shavings of the bark of trees left by the 
woodcutters. I have one nest, however, which is externally formed 
of green moss with a few dry stalks ; and the spiders' webs, instead 
of being plastered all over the outside, are merely used to bind the 
nest to the small branches among which it is placed ; the lining is of 
bark shavings, dry grasses, black fibrous lichens, and a few fine seed- 
stalks of grasses. The diameter of the nest is 2t inches, and 1^ 
inches deep. The eggs are usually three in number, of a rosy or 
purplish white, sprinkled over rather numerously with deep claret or 
rufescent purple' specks and spots. In colours, and distribution of 
spots, there is great variation ; sometimes the rufous and sometimes 
the purple spots prevailing ; sometimes the spots are mere specks 
and freckles ; sometimes large, and forming blotches ; in some the 
spots are wide apart ; in others they are nearly, and sometimes in 
places quite confluent : while from one nest the eggs were white, with 
widely-dispersed dark purple spots and dull indistinct ones appearing 
under the shell. In all, the spots are more crowded at the larger 
end. Diameter varying from 1 X ^ inches to 1^ x \^ inches." — 
(Capt. Hutton, J. A. S. Beng. XYIII. pt. II. p. 10.) 
389. HYPSIPETES GANEESA, Syhes. 
Hypsipetes ganeesa, Syhes, P. Z. S. (1832), p. 87. 
Jard. et Selhy, III. Orn. 2nd ser. t. 2. G. B. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. 238. Blyth, Journ. A. S. 
Beng. XIY. p. 574 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. App. 
p. 339. 
Hypsipetes psaroides, apud Sorsf. McGIell., P. Z. S. 
(1839), p. 159. 
A. Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykes. 
b. and Drawing. Assam. Presented by J. McClel- 
land, Esq. 
