antly flying in parties from budh to bash, uttering their lively ciilrp, they 
attract attention, and the little White Eye is familiar to most Europeans 
who visit Newera El 11a. 
In the winter the males associate in flocks of fifteen or twenty, and it 
is then rare to find a female in their company. I believe the latter are 
for the time solitary, as with one exception, the numerous specimens I have 
shot from different floaks have proved to be males. In the months of Decem¬ 
ber and January I have seen hundreds In a flock in the Newera Ellia jungles. 
NIDIFICATION 
This species breeds from March until May, judging from the young birds 
which are seen abroad about the latter month. Mr Bligh found the nest in 
March on Catton estate. It was built in a coffee bush a few feet from the 
ground, and was rather a frail structure, suspended from the arms or a small 
fork formed by one bare twig crossing another. In shape it was a shallow' 
cup, well made of small roots and bents, lined with hair like tendrils of 
moss, and was adorned on the exterior with a few cobwebs and a little moss. 
The eggs were three in number, pointed ovals, of a pale bluish green 
ground colour. They measured on an average .64 by .45 inches. 
The accompanying drawing was taken fro:a a nest'and birds found at Maha- 
pastotte. 
