One or other of the Red-whiskered Bulbuls (20 and 21).
Bulbuls go about in pairs and constantly emit a cheery note.
This species differs from the Red-vented Bulbuls in its somewhat smaller size, its shorter crest and in having a large white patch on each side of the head, and the patch of feathers under the tail yellow instead of crimson.
These bulbuls occur all over India, but ornithologists divide them into several species: 15.
Both the Molpastes and the Otocompsa bulbuls build neat cup-shaped nests in trees and shrubs in gardens.
At the points where the various species or races of red-vented bulbuls meet they interbreed, so that at Lucknow and other points of junction it is not possible to assign the local bulbuls to any of the above species.
Sometimes as many as three or four pairs of bulbuls attempt to rear up families in one verandah.
In the first days of March the bulbuls begin to breed.
The common bulbuls of the plains belong to two genera--Molpastes and Otocompsa.
Unlike bulbuls these birds are careful to conceal the nest.
This is due to the fact that these bulbuls are widely distributed and fall into a number of local races, each of which has some little peculiarity in colouring.
A pair of bulbuls once built a nest in my greenhouse at Gonda.
Sometimes bulbuls do by chance construct their nest in a well-concealed spot, but then they invariably "give the show away" by setting up a tremendous cackling whenever a human being happens to pass by.
For this reason, bulbuls are birds after the heart of the museum ornithologist.
The twittering of the red-whiskered bulbulsis not the least of the charms of our southern hill stations.
Bulbuls feed on insects and berries, so are apt to be destructive in gardens.
Notwithstanding all their nesting disasters, bulbuls flourish so greatly as to severely shake one's faith in the doctrine of natural selection.
The song of most bulbuls is a medley of pleasant tinkling notes; the cries of the black bulbuls are harsh and unlovely.
Black bulbuls seem never to descend to the ground.
Striated green bulbuls go about in flocks which keep to the tops of trees.
Many Himalayan birds have rather discordant notes, and in this respect these mountains do not compare favourably with the Nilgiris, where the blithe notes of the bulbuls are very pleasing to the ear.
As we have seen, most bulbuls are inoffensive, respectable birds, that lead a quiet, domesticated life.
In respect of nesting habits, black bulbuls conform more closely to the ways of their tribe than they do in other matters.
Neither of these bulbuls ascends the hills very high, but I have seen the former at the Brewery below Naini Tal.
Black bulbuls utter a variety of notes, most of which are pleasing to the human ear, although they incline to harshness.
Black bulbuls seem never to descend to the ground; they keep almost entirely to the tops of lofty trees and so occur only in well-wooded parts of the hills.
Black bulbuls look black only when seen from a distance.
If this shares the fate of the first set, some more are laid, so that eventually a family of bulbuls hatches out.
There are, however, some bulbuls which are so unlike the birds described above that the latter might reasonably deny relationship to them as indignantly as some human beings decline to acknowledge apes and monkeys as poor relations.
It was not until the 15th July that I had leisure to watch these bulbuls closely.
The baby bulbuls did not display at this early stage of their existence that eagerness for food, amounting almost to greediness, that characterises nestlings when they grow a little older.
I therefore determined to devote some hours to studying the ways of those bulbulsat the nest.
Young bulbuls when first hatched out are almost lost in the nest, taking up very little more room than the eggs that contained them; but they grow at an astonishing rate.
I then saw two of the youngbulbuls lying on the floor of the verandah.
On the 22nd I noticed a pair of bulbuls prospecting in a croton plant near my daftar window; nevertheless, although I examined that plant carefully, I found no traces of a nest.
Thus we see that among bulbulsdestruction takes place mostly in the nest, whole broods being wiped out at a time.
The labour of the six-and-twenty little bulbuls who, to my knowledge, have failed to rear their broods has not been lost altogether, for it has taught me something about their ways that I did not know before.
Thus, I was able to watch the bulbulsthrough the chik in comfort, reclining in the easy chair.
The pair of bulbuls of which I write did not, however, indulge in any of these luxuries; they were content with a rudely constructed nursery.
The above notes show that a pair of bulbuls can build a nest in a couple of days.
Bulbuls did, however, usually refuse the Delias and Papilio mentioned above.
Of these other cases, the Indian bulbuls of the genus Molpastes form a very remarkable one.
I have examined numbers of skins and taken nests and eggs time after time, and have come to the conclusion that our type is very constant, and at the same time differs from all the red-vented bulbuls hitherto described.
In all places where two of the so-called species meet they appear to interbreed, and so freely do they interbreed that at the points where the allied species run into one another it is not possible to refer the bulbuls to either species.
More silence save for the bulbuls and the fountain.
I have fully described the leading types of the eggs of these Bulbuls under Molpastes haemorrhous.
It is not easy to express it in words; but still this nest differs very considerably in appearance from the nests of any of the true Bulbuls with which I am acquainted, and more approaches those of Hypsipetes.
They differ a good deal in size and shape, as the nests of Bulbuls are wont to do.
Anatomically speaking, greenbulbuls are not bulbuls at all.
Then, as the land began to be denuded of forest in parts, these green bulbuls became a number of isolated communities, with the result that they eventually evolved into several species.
The parrakeets and barbets, thanks to their powerful beaks, are well adapted to fighting, while more pugnacious birds than bulbuls and pigeons do not exist.
It would thus seem that green bulbuls have not a great many enemies to fear.
Green bulbuls might be called Indian mocking-birds were there not so many other birds in the country that imitate the calls of their fellows.
One day, while I was writing in my study, this young bulbul began scolding in a way that all bulbuls do when alarmed.
Green bulbuls are hardy birds and thrive well in captivity.
For generations those bulbuls who did not fear and avoid the shikra fell victims to it, while the more cautious ones survived and their descendants inherited this characteristic.
Some months ago one of my chaprassis brought me a couple of baby red-vented bulbuls which had fallen out of a nest.
Of the green bulbuls only two species occur in South India--the Malabar Chloropsis (C.
Green bulbuls go about, sometimes in small flocks, more frequently in pairs.
Her face broke into flowers, red flowers at the mouth, Her voice,--she sang for hours like bulbuls in the south.
I saw these bulbuls darting out after insects from branches, much as flycatchers would do, and have noticed a tendency toward flycatching in other bulbuls, but not so commonly as in this species.
These bulbuls regularly feed on berries of Trema orientalis.
This most common of the "brown" bulbuls at the Cocoa Research Station frequented shade trees (Trema orientalis).
It fed in the company of otherbulbuls in shade trees (Trema orientalis).
But it is a joy to stand on the bridge above the stream that flows between them, and listen to the muazzen in the minaret and the bulbuls in the Temple.
And hearing the bulbuls calling in the direction of Najma's house that evening, he repairs thither.
And thebulbuls are pouring their golden splendour of song.
Bulbuls and beetles and butterflies, oxen and donkeys and mules,--these were his playmates and friends.
And the black-birds too are dozing, and the bulbuls flitting by whisper with their wings, 'salaam.
His lute is also with him; and he will continue to practise the few lessons which the bulbuls of the poplar groves have taught him.
When thou desirest Love's supreme surrender, Come while the morning revels in the light, Bulbuls around us, passionately tender, Singing among the roses red and white.
Noon after noon I watched the Bulbuls build, And saw with hungry eyes the Sun-birds pair.
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