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during the prevalence of the south-east monsoon, choosing 

 that season with the view of looking for the whereabouts of 

 some of our insessorial forms which disappear from the west 

 coast at that time, and which I hoped to meet with in the 

 sheltered jungles of the Wellaway Korle. 



Touching our commonest birds, which one is sure to meet 

 with throughout the low country, and which of course are 

 present in these limits, I will not take up room for special 

 notice of them ; they may, however, be summed up with our 

 common cool-season "migrants,^' Hirundo rustica, Lanius 

 cristatus, Alseonax latirostris, Acrocephalus dumetorum, Phyl- 

 loscopus nitidus, about which there is nothing to note, except 

 that the two latter are scarce, and with our insessorial resi- 

 dents, Cypselus bataviensis, Dendrochelidon coronata, Collo- 

 calia fuciphaga, Halcyon smyrnensis, Alcedo bengalensis, Pe- 

 largopsis gurial, Megalxama zeylonica, Eudynamys lionorata, 

 Centropus nifipennis*, Leptocoma zeylonica, Arachnecthra lo- 

 tenia, Dicaum minimum, Campephaga sykesi, Myiagra azurea, 

 Alcippe nigrifrons, Malacocercus striatus, Phyllornis jerdoni, 

 Ixos luteolus, Pycnonotus hcemori'hous , lora zeylonica, Oriolus 

 ceylonensis, Copsychus saularis, Orthotomus longicauda, Cis- 

 ticola schcenicola, Corydalla rufula, Acridotheres tristis, Zos- 

 terops palpebrosus, Munia striata, M. undulata, and Passer 

 indicus, — touching which I may remark that Dendrochelidon 

 coronata and Eudynamys honorata are resident here during 

 both monsoons, that Arachnecthra lotenia is partially repre- 

 sented by the much more numerous A. asiatica, a species 

 fond of dry scrubs, that Copsychus saulai'is, the common 

 Robin of the west coast, is almost entirely replaced by Tham- 

 nobia fulicata, a very abundant bird in the north of the island 

 and on the whole of the east coast, that Munia undulata, our 

 common Finch of the west coast, is replaced to a great extent 

 by M. malabarica, a typical species of the north-east. Again, 

 as far as the remaining Orders are concerned, Turtur sura- 



* I am almost sure I once distinguished the green bill of C. chloro- 

 rhynchns in a Centropus that flew across the Badulla road, in the Wella- 

 way Korle ; but I am not confident enough of my identification to be able 

 to include it in the following catalogue. 



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