The nests, which very much resemble those of Molpastes haemorrhous, are usually composed of very fine dry twigs of some herbaceous plant, intermingled with vegetable fibre resembling tow, and scantily lined with very fine grass-roots.  They are rather slender structures, shallow cups measuring internally from 2.5 to 3 inches in diameter, and a little more than 1 inch in depth.  Three was the largest number of eggs I ever found in any nest, and several sets were fully incubated.

Mr. W. Theobald makes the following note on the nidification of this bird in the neighbourhood of Pind Dadan Khan and Katas in the Salt Range:—­“Lay in May, June, and July:  eggs four; shape ovato pyriform; size 0.91 inch by 0.64 inch:  colour white, much dotted with claret-red; nest a neat cup of vegetable fibres in bushes,”

Mr. S. Doig informs us that this bird breeds on the Eastern Narra in Sind from May to August.

Colonel Butler writes:—­“I found a nest of the White-eared Bulbul at Deesa on the 5th August containing three fresh eggs.  It was placed in the fork of a low Beer tree about 4 feet from the ground, and in structure closely resembled the nest of M. haemorrhous.

“On the 17th August I found another nest built by the same pair of birds in an exactly similar situation, about 60 yards from the first nest, containing three more fresh eggs.”

The eggs, which I need not here describe in detail, are precisely similar to, but as a body slightly smaller than, those of Molpastes leucogenys.  The only point of difference that I seem to notice, and this might disappear with a larger series before me, is that there is a rather greater tendency in the eggs of this species to exhibit a zone or cap.  In length they vary from 0.75 to 0.9, and in breadth from 0.52 to 0.68; but the average of twenty-three eggs measured was 0.83 barely, by 0.64.

288.  Otocompsa emeria(Linn.). The Bengal Red-whiskered Bulbul.

Otocompsa jocosa (L.), Jerd.  B. Ind ii, p, 92 (part).  Otocompsa emeria (Shaw), Hume, Rough Draft N.& E. no. 460.

The Bengal Red-whiskered Bulbul breeds from March to the end of May.  Its nest is placed, according to my experience in Lower Bengal, in any thick bush, clump of grass, or knot of creepers; sometimes in the immediate proximity of native villages or in the gardens of Europeans, and sometimes quite away in the jungle.  It is a typical Bulbul nest, a broad shallow saucer, compactly put together with twigs of herbaceous plants, amongst which, especially towards the base, a few dry leaves are incorporated, and lined with roots or fine grass.  Exteriorly a little cobweb is wound on to keep twigs and leaves firm and in their places.  All the nests that I have seen were tolerably near the ground, at heights ranging from 3 to 5 feet.

Three is the normal number of the eggs, but only the other day we obtained one containing four.