Mr. J. Davidson remarks:—­“This bird simply swarms along the Western Ghats from Mahabuleshwur down the Koina and Werna valleys, and seems to have a very extended breeding-time.  Last year (1873) I took its nests in March and May on several occasions, and this year I found three nests in March and April in the Werna valley; and the Hill people, who seem intelligent and fairly trustworthy, stated that this species breeds there throughout the Rains, a season when, owing to the tremendous rainfall, no European can remain.  If this be true they must breed at least twice a year.  All the nests I saw were placed in bushes from 2 to 4 feet high, some of them most carefully concealed amongst thorns.  Out of, I think, nine nests, all taken by myself personally, I never found more than two eggs in any; and on two occasions last year I obtained single eggs nearly fully incubated.”

Messrs Davidson and Wenden, writing of the Deccan, remark:—­“Commonish in wooded localities.  D. took several nests in the Satara Hills in March and the two following months.”

Captain Butler writes:—­“The Red-whiskered Bulbul is common at Mount Aboo and breeds in March, April, and May.  The nest is usually placed in low bushes from 4 to 8 feet from the ground, and is a neat cup-shaped structure composed externally of fibrous roots and dry grass-stems, and lined with fine grass, horsehair, &c.  Round the edge and woven into the outside I have generally found small spiders’ nests looking like lumps of wool.  The eggs, usually two but sometimes three in number, are of a pinkish-white colour, covered all over with spots and blotches and streaks of purplish or lake-red, forming a dense confluent cap at the large end.  A nest I examined on the 24th April contained two nestlings almost ready to fly.

“On the 3rd May, 1875, I took a nest in a low carinda bush, containing two fresh eggs.”

Mr. C.J.W.  Taylor, writing from Manzeerabad, Mysore, says:—­“Most abundant in the wooded district.  Common everywhere.  Eggs taken March and April.  On the 5th July, 1883, I procured a, nest of this species with three pure white eggs.  I found it in a coffee-bush the day before leaving, so snared parent bird to make sure it was O. fuscicaudata, or otherwise should have left a couple of the eggs to see if young would turn out true to parents.”

Captain Horace Terry states that on the Pulney hills this species is “a most common bird, found wherever there are bushes.  In the small bushes along the banks of the streams is a very favourite place.  I found several nests with usually two, but sometimes three eggs.”

Mr. Benjamin Aitken tells us:—­“I never saw this bird in the plains, but it is, perhaps without exception, the commonest bird at Matheran, Khandalla, and other hill-stations in the Bombay Presidency.  I have found the nests, always with eggs in May, placed from four to seven feet from the ground, and often in the most exposed situations.  It is not unusual to find only two eggs in a nest.  The bird is not in the least shy, and sets up no clatter, like the Common Bulbul, when its nest is disturbed.”