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Editorial. 
Nesting Notes : These are commencing early this season, 
my esteemed friend and fellow member, Mr. VV. E. Teschemaker leads 
the way in this respect. Through the wretched weather of last 
January his Argoondali Quails patiently attended to the duties of 
incubation and on the 31st ult., six young Argoondahs were duly 
hatched" the first Argoondahs to be born in this country I believe— one 
escaped through the netting and was lost, the others are still alive, but 
that they will be fully reared is rather doubtful, as some little time was 
lost in finding a suitable food for them, the ordinary diet being refused. 
It is not easy to rear hardy chickens in mid-winter, let alone small 
quails, so that complete success is doubtful. The above is extracted 
from a private letter. 
Green BulbulS : it will be remembered that from a note 
published in Vol. VIII., Mr. Teschemaker announced* he had a true 
pair of Malabar Green Bulbirls. These now prove to be the ordinary 
Gold-fronted (C. aurifrons.) I draw attention to this fact, as it dis- 
tinctly points to the fact that young Gold-fronts do not get the blue 
throat at the first moult, but that it is very probably a colour growth 
not evident till some months later, or till the next moult — I do not 
think this point has been previously noted, viz., that young male 
aurifrons, hare the centre of the throat black, for some months after as- 
suming the black areas on the throat and sides of neck and that the 
blue on tlie centre of the throat does not appear till some time later. 
Both Captain Perreau and myself were led astray by this fact into 
thinking I had a genuine rarity — viz., a true Malabar. Mr. Tesche- 
maker has been mish^d by the same feature and I have also come 
across other cases, so that I think we may conclude that this feature is 
constant and that all young male Gold-lronts have the centre of the 
throat black for some time after sheding the nestling plumage, which 
is mostly green ; in the case of my specimen the blue on the centre of 
throat did not appear for nearly a year, and for the whole of that period 
I was under the impression that I had a true Malabar Green Bulbul. 
Possibly either Messrs. Dewar, Donald, Capt. Perreau (or some other 
member at present in India), will make some observations as regards 
this feature, and ascertain whether it is constant with wild l)irds and 
also if possible fix at al)0ut what age the blue on the throat first 
appears, and whether by a direct moidt or colour growth. 
* Or I did, (jiioting from a private letter. 
