. The Emu . 110 Hall, The Jungle and the Snows. [isfoct. The Bulbuls have their home principally in the Oriental region,from where they extend to Japan, Malaj^ Peninsula, and through-out Africa. I was rather disappointed in the song of the threespecies I met, considering it was their season. One I found nearSolon building its nest, and it certainly should have had sometime for special effort. The poets Bulbul is probably Dauliashafizi, which is intermediate between the English Nightingale{D. luscinia) and the Eastern form {D. philoniela). The mimic of the jungle is the lora—now here, now there

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. The Emu . 110 Hall, The Jungle and the Snows. [isfoct. The Bulbuls have their home principally in the Oriental region,from where they extend to Japan, Malaj^ Peninsula, and through-out Africa. I was rather disappointed in the song of the threespecies I met, considering it was their season. One I found nearSolon building its nest, and it certainly should have had sometime for special effort. The poets Bulbul is probably Dauliashafizi, which is intermediate between the English Nightingale{D. luscinia) and the Eastern form {D. philoniela). The mimic of the jungle is the lora—now here, now there, makingit difficult to locate the owner. At a village tank, to which thecarnivores and others came to drink, I saw the widespread Green-shank [Totamis), the northern Lapwing {Vanellus), and a sage oldAdjutant {Leptoptilus). Later on I saw the Jabiru [Xenorhynchus).Along a nala three species of Kingfishers {Halcyon) were seen,keeping up the family reputation for bright and many colours. Here also I saw a f

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