Mr. R.M.  Adam says:—­“This bird is very common in Oudh.  It affects gardens and low scrub-jungle, flying about with a jerky flight from bush to bush.  They are very fond of the fruit of the mangot-tree (F. indica), and may be seen in great numbers about these trees when the fruit is ripe.  Their note is something like that of the common Bulbul, but livelier and louder.  I have seen a number of this year’s young birds well grown, but as yet without the red cheek-tuft.

“They build in clamps of moong-grass about 2 to 3 feet from the ground.  One I found in the tendrils of a creeper about 20 feet from the ground.  The nest is well fixed in the grass and fastened to it by the intertwining of some of the fibres of which it is composed.  It is cup-shaped, and measures 4 inches in diameter, about 0.75 in thickness, with an egg-cavity 2.75 in diameter and 1.5 deep.

“The nest is formed of roots, twigs, and grass loosely worked together, and over the exterior, with the view of binding the mass together, dried or skeleton leaves, pieces of cloth, broad pieces of grass, and plaintain-bark are fastened carelessly on by means of cobwebs and the silk from cocoons.  The egg-cavity is lined with fine roots.

“I never have found more than three eggs; on several occasions only two.”

I do not think it possible to separate the Andaman bird.  Of its nidification in those islands Mr. Davison says:—­“I found a nest of this species in April near Port Blair, in a low mangrove-bush growing quite at the edge of the water; it (the nest) was cup-shaped and composed of roots, dried leaves, and small pieces of bark, lined with fine roots and cocoanut fibres; it contained three eggs, with a pinkish-white ground thickly mottled and blotched with purplish red, the spots coalescing at the thicker end to form a zone.”

Mr. J.H.  Cripps writes from Eastern Bengal:—­“Very common and a permanent resident; it freely enters gardens and orchards.  In my garden there was a kamiinee-tree (Murraya exotica), in which I found a nest of this species on the 27th March in course of construction; and on looking at it on the 12th April found two young that had just been hatched.  Cane-brakes are favourite places for them to nest in.  On the 6th May I found a nest in one of these about 4 feet off the ground, and containing three partly incubated eggs.  This species does not, as a rule, build in such exposed situations as M. bengalensis; it eats the fruit of jungly trees, Ficis, &c., as well as insects.”

On the breeding of this Bulbul in Pegu Mr. Gates remarks:—­“This bird breeds as early as February, on the 27th of which month I procured a nest with two eggs nearly hatched.  It stops nesting, I think, at the beginning of the rains.”

Mr. W. Davison informs us that he “took a nest of this bird at Bankasoon, in Southern Tenasserim, on the 15th March.  It was placed in a small bush growing in an old garden about 4 feet above the ground.  The nest was of the usual type, a compactly-woven cup, composed externally of dry twigs, leaves, &c., the egg-cavity lined with fibres.  It contained three nearly fresh eggs.”