minivet

"That's a Minivet; she covers her nest with lichens so that on a lichen-covered limb it looks like a knot."

This minivet was common at the Cocoa Research Station, where it usually inhabited the shade trees in the cocoa groves.

It is impossible to mistake a minivet, but it is quite another matter to say to which species any particular minivet belongs.

The species commonly seen about our hill stations are Pericrocotus speciosus, the Indian scarlet minivet, and P. brevirostris, the short-billed minivet.

I have never seen a minivet on the ground.