Mr. C.J.W. Taylor informs us that he procured the nest of this bird with three fresh eggs at Manzeerabad in Mysore on the 7th April. Colonel Legge tells us that this Bulbul breeds in Ceylon from January till March. That the Nilghiris bird should lay usually only _two_ eggs, and this seems a well ascertained fact, while our very closely allied Himalayan form lays, as I can personally certify, regularly _four_, is certainly very strange. The eggs of this species, sent me from the Nilghiris by Messrs. Carter and Davison, very closely resemble those of _H. psaroides_ from the Himalayas. The eggs are of course of the Bulbul type, but in form are typically much more elongated and conical than the true Bulbuls. The ground-colour varies from white to a delicate pink. The markings consist of different shades of deep red and pale washed-out purple. In some the markings are bold, large, and blotchy, in others minute and speckly; and in both forms there is a tendency to confluence towards the large end, where there is commonly a more or less perfect, but irregular, zone. The eggs though smooth and satiny have commonly little or no gloss, and, considering their size, are very delicate and fragile. In length they vary from 1·0 to 1·17, and in breadth from 0·7 to 0·8. 275. Hemixus macclellandi (Horsf.). _The Rufous-bellied Bulbul_. Hypsipetes mclellandi, _Horsf., Jerd. B. Ind._ ii, p. 79. Hypsipetes m'clellandii, _Horsf., Hume, Rough Draft N. & E._ no. 447. The Rufous-bellied Bulbul, according to Mr. Hodgson's notes, breeds in the central region of Nepal, and low down nearly to the Terai, from April to June. Its nest is a shallow saucer suspended between a slender horizontal fork, to the twigs of which it is firmly bound like an Oriole's with vegetable fibres and roots. It is composed of roots and dry leaves bound together with fibres, and lined with fine grass or moss-roots. The bird is said to lay four eggs, but these are neither figured nor described.