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devoted it to a fruitless search forbears. I had returned tired arid
rather dispirited, and was moving about among the ruined houses,
between and among which a lot of jungle was already springing up,
when, just as I passed a low bush about 3 feet high, out went one
of the above-mentioned birds; of course the bush contained a'nest,
a remarkably neat cup-shaped affair, below and outside of fine twigs,
then a layer of roots, above which was a lining of the stems of
the flower of the 'theckay' grass. It contained three eggs on
the point of hatching, out of which I was only able to save one.
It is one of the loveliest eggs I have seen; in colour I can liken it
only to a peculiar pink granite that is so common at home in Ireland.
Its ground-colour T should say was white, but it is so thickly spotted
with pink and claret that it is hard to describe. It measured 0*85
X 0-61 inch."

Captain Wardlaw Eainsay writes in 'The Ibis':—"I found* a
nest containing two eggs in April at the foot of the Karen hills
in Burma."

I have seen too few eggs of this species to say much about them.
What I have seen were rather elongated ovals pretty markedly
pointed towards the small end. The shell fine, but with only a
slight gloss; the ground a pinky creamy white, everywhere very
finely freckled over with red, varying from brownish to maroon,
and again still more thickly with pale purple or purplish grey,
this latter colour being almost confluent over a broad zone round
the large end.

292. Spizixus canifrons, Blyth. The Finch-lilled Bulbul.
Spizixus canifrons, Bl.3 Hume} Cat. no. 4-53 bis.

Colonel Godwin-Austen says :—" Spizixos canifrons breeds in the
neighbourhood of Shillong, in May. Young birds are seen in
June." *

* TRACIIYCOMUS OCIIROCEPIIALUS (G-m.). The Yellow-crowned Bulbul.
Trachycomus ochrocephalus (G"m.\ Hume, Cat. no. 449 bis.

As this bird occurs in Tenasserim, the following description of the nest and
eggs found a short distance outside our limits will prove interesting.

Mr. J". Darling, Junior, writes :—" I found the nest of this bird on the 2nd
July at Kossoom. The nest was of the ordinary Bulbul type, but much larger,
and like a very shallow saucer. The foundation was a single piece of some
creeping orchid, 3 feet long, coiled round; then a lot of coils of fern, grass, and
moss-roots. The nest was 4. inches in diameter on the inside, the walls J inch
thick, and the cavity 1 inch deep. It was built 10 feet from the ground, in a
bush in a very exposed position, and exactly where any ordinary Bulbul would
have built."

The eggs of this species are of the ordinary Bulbul type, rather broad at the
large end, compressed and slightly pyriforrn, or more or less pointed, towards
the small end. The shell fine and smooth, but with only a moderate amount of
gloss. The ground-colour varies from very pale pinky white to a rich warm
salmon-pink. The markings are two colours : first, a red varying from a dull
brownish to almost crimson; the second, a paler colour varying from neutral tint
through purplish grey to a full though pale purple. The first may be called the