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dense damp scrub (it invariably affects bamboo jungle in tbe 

 Galle district) ; its note is lieard most in early morning after 

 rain, as I have already observed. I don^t know how Mr. 

 Holdsworth could have overlooked it in the southern province ; 

 for even though his laboiu's were confined to one locality 

 (Akkuresse), which is one of the worst spots in the southern 

 province for its typical forms, I should have thought it could 

 have been found there. I procured it not far from Ak- 

 kuresse. Some specimens in my collection from the south 

 are dated 12th Jan. 1872, 25th April 1873, 19th June 1871, 

 19th August 1872, 17th Nov. 1871 — giving a sequence of 

 months. It is as plentiful close to Trincomalie as in the 

 south, but, notwithstanding, is difficult to procure, except in 

 the early morning. 



PALiEORNIS CALTHROPiE. 



Is resident in the southern-province mountains, but is found 

 nowhere near Akkuresse, where Mr. Holdsworth collected. 

 I will venture to say it would not turn up there in a ten years' 

 residence. Between this locality and the mountains proper 

 of the southern province, or even the great subsidiary hill- 

 forests on the banks of the Gindurah, is a tolerably high, 

 worthless (ornithologically speaking) range of hills, containing 

 nothing of interest to the collector. It is a tolerably different 

 region in character from the Morawa Korle, to which Mr. 

 Holdsworth believes it to be analogous. An ascent of 1600 

 feet, and then a di*op of 200, through a space of seventeen 

 miles over these hills, brings the traveller to the district of 

 Morowaka, which is still wanting in mountain-species ; twelve 

 miles further, through beautiful hills, brings one to the verge 

 of the Morowa Korle ; and the chances are that, after resting 

 your wearied limbs at the Denyia Rest-house, the first bird- 

 sounds you will hear on the following dawn will be the "crake'" 

 of P. calthropce and the metallic cry of Eulabes ptilogenys. 

 P. calthrop<E is not so numerous in the Morowa Korle as in 

 the Lion- King forests of the Kookool Korle, which lies to 

 the north-east of the coffee-estates. I saw greater numbers 

 in this Korle at elevations of about 2000 feet, during the most 



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