Colonel Butler says:—­“The Madras Red-vented Bulbul breeds in the neighbourhood of Deesa all through the hot weather and in the monsoon.  I found a nest at Mount Aboo in a garden on the 15th of April in the middle of a pot of sweet peas, containing three fresh eggs.  I found other nests in Deesa, from the 11th May to 20th August, each containing three eggs.

“The nest is usually built of dry grass-stems, lined with fine roots and a few horsehairs neatly woven together.  One nest I found was in a very remarkable situation, viz. inside an uninhabited bungalow upon the top of a door leading out of a sitting-room; the door was open and the bolt at the top had been forced back, and it was between the top of the door and the top of the bolt that the nest rested.  The old bird entered the building by passing first of all through the lattice-work of the verandah, and then through a broken window-pane into the room where the nest was built.”

Mr. R.M.  Adam informs us that this bird breeds at Sambhur during June and July.

Lieut.  H.E.  Barnes, speaking of Rajputana in general, states that this Bulbul breeds from April to September.  Nests are occasionally found even earlier than this, but they are exceptions to the general rule.

Major C.T.  Bingham writes:—­“The first nest I have a note of taking was at Allahabad on the 2nd April.  At Delhi it breeds from the end of April to the end of July; I have, however, found most nests in May.  All have been firmly made little cups of slender twigs, sometimes dry stems of some herbaceous plant, and lined with fine grass-roots.  Five is the usual number of eggs laid.”

Mr. G.W.  Vidal, writing of the South Konkan, says:—­“Abundant everywhere.  Breeds in April, and again in September.”

Dr. Jerdon, whose experience of this species had been gained mainly in Madras, states that “it breeds from June to September, according to the locality.  The nest is rather neat, cup-shaped, made of roots and grass, lined with hair, fibres, and spiders’ webs[A], placed at no great height in a shrub or hedge.  The eggs are pale pinkish, with spots of darker lake-red, most crowded at the thick end.  Burgess describes them as a rich madder colour, spotted and blotched with grey and madder-brown:  Layard as pale cream, with darker markings.”

[Footnote A:  This is some lapsus pennae.  Spiders’ webs are sometimes used exteriorly never as a lining.]

Mr. Benjamin Aitken writes:—­“The Common Bulbul lays at Khandalla in May, but I never found a nest in the plains till after the rains had set in.  I have found one nest in Bombay, one in Poona, and two in Berar, as late as October; and my brother found a nest in Berar in September, with three eggs which were duly hatched.”

Writing from the Nilghiris, Miss Cockburn says that “the nests, which in shape closely resemble those of the Southern Red-whiskered Bulbul, are composed chiefly of grass.  The eggs are three in number, and may occasionally be found in any month of the year, though most plentiful during February, March, and April.”