The eggs of this species sent to me by Mr. Wait from Coonoor are totally unlike any other egg of this family with which I am acquainted.  They remind one more of the eggs of Stoparola melanops or one of the Niltavas than anything else.  The eggs are moderately long and rather perfect ovals, almost devoid of gloss, and with a dull white or pinkish-white ground, speckled more or less thickly over the whole surface with rather pale brownish red or pink.  The specklings becoming confluent at the large end, where they form a dull irregular mottled cap.  Other specimens received from Miss Cockburn from Kotagherry exhibit the same general characters; but the majority of them are considerably elongated eggs, approaching, so far as shape is concerned, the Hypsipetes type.  In some eggs only the faintest trace of pale pinkish mottling towards the large end is observable; in others, the whole surface of the egg is thickly freckled and mottled all over, but most densely at the large end, with salmon-pink or pale pinkish brown.

In length the eggs vary from 0.9 to 1.03, and in breadth from 0.64 to 0.7.[A]

[Footnote A:  PYCNONOTUS ANALIS (Horsf.). The Yellow-vented Bulbul.

Otocompsa analis (Horsf.), Hume, cat. no. 452 sex.

Mr. J. Darling, Junior, writes:—­“I found the nest of this Bulbul at Salang in the Malay peninsula, on the 14th February.  The nest was built in a bush in secondary jungle, with a few trees scattered about.  It was in a fork 6 feet from the ground.  The foundation was of dried leaves, then fine twigs, and lined with fine grass-bents.  There was a good deal of cobweb in the construction.  It was an exact facsimile of many nests of Otocompsa fuscicaudata from the Nilgherry Hills.  The egg-cavity was 3 inches in diameter and 21/2 inches deep; the walls were 1/2 inch thick, the bottom 1 inch.”

The eggs are of the usual variable Bulbul type, some broader and more regular, some more elongated, some more or less pyriform.  The shell as in others, and apparently rarely showing any very perceptible gloss.  The ground-colour pinky white to a warm pink; the markings, specks, and spots, or, when three or four of these latter have coalesced, occasionally small blotches of a rich maroon-red intermixed with spots and specks and clouds of pale purple.  The markings always apparently pretty thickly set everywhere, but almost invariably most densely in a zone about the larger end, where they become at times more or less confluent.  Of course as in others of the genus, in some eggs all the markings are very fine and speckly, while in others they are somewhat bolder.  In some the red greatly predominates; in others, again, the grey underlying clouds are very widely extended, and form by far the most conspicuous part of the markings, giving a grey tinge to the entire egg.  The eggs vary from 0.82 to 0.91 in length and from 0.61 to 0.65 in breadth.]