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Miss Cockburn, writing from Kotagheny, says :—" The Yellow-
browed Bulbiil is common on the less elevated slopes of the
NiHiiris where it is often seen feeding upon guavas, loquots, pears,
peaches, Ac. They lay generally in April and May.
" Their nests are constructed very much like those of the common
Bulbuls, except that, instead of being placed in the forked branches
of trees', they are suspended between two twigs, and fastened to
them by cobwebs, the inside being neatly lined with fine grass. Two
nests of this bird were found, each containing two fresh eggs, of a
pretty pinkish salmon colour, with a dark ring at the thick end ; but
another nest had three nearly white eggs! The whole structure of
the nests was slight and thin, and the eggs could be plainly seen
through. The notes of the Yellow-browed Bulbul are loud and
repeated often."
Writing on the birds of Ceylon, Colonel Legge remarks:—"I
once found the nest of this bird in the Pasdun-Korale forests in
August; little or nothing, however, is known of its breeding-habits
in Ceylon, so that it most likely commences earlier than that month
to rear its brood. My nest was placed in the fork of a thin sapling
about 8 feet from the ground. It was of large size for such a bird,
the foundation being bulky and composed of small twigs, moss, and
dead leaves, supporting a cup of about 2| inches in diameter, which
was constructed of moss, lined with fine roots; the upper edge of
the body of the nest was woven round the supporting branches.
......' The bottom of the nest was in the fork."
The eggs of this species sent to me by Mr. "Wait from Coonoor
are totally unlike any other egg of this family with which I am
acquainted. They remind one more of the eggs of Stopavola
welanops or one of the Niltavas than anything else. The eggs are
moderately long and rather perfect ovals, almost devoid of gloss,
and with a dull white or pinkish-white ground, speckled more or
less thickly over the whole surface with rather pale brownish red or
pink. The specklings becoming confluent at the large end, where
they form a dull irregular mottled cap. Other specimens received
from Miss Cockburn from Kotagherry exhibit the same general
characters; but the majority of them are considerably elongated eggs,
approaching, so far as shape is concerned, the Hypsipetes type. In
some eggs only the faintest trace of pale pinkish mottling towards
the large end is observable; in others, the whole surface of the egg
is thickly freckled and mottled all over, but most densely at the
large end, with salmon-pink or pale pinkish brown.
In length the eggs vary from 0*9 to 1-03, and in breadth from 0*64
to 0-7 *
* pycnonotus analis (Horsf.).    The Yellow-vented Bulbul.
Otocompsa analis (Horsf.!), Hume, Cat. no. 452 sex.
Mr. J. Darling, Junior, writes :—" I found the nest of this Bulbul at Salary
in the Malay peninsula, on the 14th February. The nest was built in a bush m
secondary jungle, with a few trees scattered about. It was in a fork 6 feet from
the ground. The foundation was of dried leaves, then fine twigs, and lined.