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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 O7, and 0-97 by 0*7. 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 iii one egg a
broadish zone, aud 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, aud 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 1*06 and 1*11 by 0-67.

277. Alcurus striattis (BL). The Striated Green Bulbul.
Alcurus striatus (RL), Jerd. J3. 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 hsemorrhous (Gin.). The Madras Red-vented

Bulbul.

Pycnouotusliternorrlious (Grn.), Jerd. JR. Ind. ii, p. 94.
Molpastespusillus (£1.*), Hume, Rough Draft N. fy E. no. 462.

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