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externally composed of fine stems of some herbaceous plant and a
few blades of grass, and internally lined with very fine hair-like
grass. The nests may measure externally, at most, 4 inches in
diameter; but the egg-cavity, which, is in proportion very large and
deep, is fully 2| inches across by If inch deep. As I before said,
the nest is usually very slightly and loosely put together, so that it
is difficult to remove it without injury; but sometimes they are
more substantial, and occasionally the cup is much shallower and
wider than I have above described. Uour is the full complement
of eggs.

Captain Uiiwin says :—" I found a nest containing three fresh
eggs near the village of Jaskofce, in the Agrore Valley, on the
24th April, 1870. The nest was placed about 5 feet'from the
ground in a small wild ber-tree in a watercourse. On the 7th May
I found another nest placed in a small thick cheer-tree in the same
valley, which contained fonr eggs."

From Murree, Colonel C. H. T. Marshall tells us that this
species "breeds in the valleys, at about 4000 or 5000 feet up, in
the end of June. Lays four eggs with a white ground, very thickly
blotched with claret-red; nest roughly made of grass and roots, in
low bushes."

About Simla and the valleys of the Sutlej and Beas 1 have found
it common, and my experience of its nidification in these localities
has been above recorded.

Erom Mussoorie, Captain Hutton wrote that it is " common in
the Dhoon throughout the year, and in the hills during the summer.
It breeds in April and May. The nest is neat and cup-shaped,
placed in the forks of bushes or pollard trees, and is composed
externally of the dried stalks of forget-me-not, lined with fine
grass-stalks. Eggs three or four, rosy or faint purplish white,
thickly sprinkled with specks and spots of darker rufescent purple or
claret colour. Sometimes the outside of the nest is composed of fine
dried stalks of woody plants, whose roughness causes them to
adhere together."

Mr. W. E. Brooks remarks :—" I found this bird common at
Almorah, and procured several nests. They were placed in a bush
or small tree, and were slightly composed of fine grass, roots, and
fibres: eggs three; ground-colour purplish white, speckled all over,
most densely at the larger end, with spots and blotches of purple-
brown and purplish grey: laying in Kurnaon from the beginning
of May to June."

Dr. Scully states that in Nepal this Bulbul " breeds in May and
June, principally at elevations of from 5000 to 6000 feet. Its
nests were' secured on the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 14th, and 28th June; the
usual number of eggs laid seems to be three."

Colonel G. I\ L. Marshall writes:—" This species breeds both at
Naini Tal (7000 feet) and at Bheem Tal (4000 feet). In Kumaon
the eggs seem to be laid in the first half of June; the earliest date
I have taken them was a single fresh egg on the 23rd May, and the
latest, fonr eggs on the 25th Jane: the nest is seldom more than