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Karwar. — A single specimen seen once or twice in August or 

 September, 1889. 



Amdalla (ten miles south of Karwar on the coast). — A single 

 specimen on 20th February, 1894. 



Near Kumta on the Tudri river. — A single specimen on 25th 

 November, 1893. 



Talan (five miles due east of Bhutkul). — A single specimen on 

 20th December, 1893. 



At the Gairsoppa falls (at least 20 miles as the crow flies from the 

 sea), A single specimen on the 30th December, 1893. 

 1051. DiCHOCEROS BicoRNis, Linn. 



Sparingly found through all the large forests immediately below the 

 Ghats, and occasionally in the central forests above Ghats. The bird 

 appears invariably to breed in the same nest ; but though I have been 

 told of others, I only know of one. This is about three miles from 

 Kutkul in the Kumta taluka ; I was first shown it on the 12th February 

 1890. It was in a very tall branchless tree in evergreen jungle. A 

 hus:e branch had been torn from the trunk about 40 or 50 feet from 

 the ground and had formed a ragged cavity, and in this the birds, 

 I was told, had bred for many years, and each year when the young 

 one was half grown, the villagers dug it and the mother out and 

 devoured them. To this circumstance they attributed the numerous 

 tribe of children inhabiting the village. A small stump of a branch 

 remained four or five feet below the hole, and after some three hours 

 work by tying bamboo ladders one above the other, two villagers 

 climbed up, and standing on the stump, after a considerable struggle 

 stabbed the old hen on her nest, which contained one fresh egg, and 

 which could not be obtained till after the old one bad been killed. 

 I visited the nest again on the 4th March, 1894, but it then contained 

 a single small young one, and in the end of January, 1895, the birds 

 had not laid. 



1052. Anthracoceros coronatus, Bodd. 



This hornbill is a good deal commoner than the last, and habitually 

 at all seasons goes about in considerable flocks. It is most common 

 in the deciduous forest in the east of Halyal, Yellapur, Mundgode 

 and Sirsi ; but I saw a pair at Bhutkul in January, 1889, and a flock of 

 some twenty near Kutgul in January, 1894. I also saw others near 



