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Embelipitiye, and again more to the south in the plains, 

 towards Hambantotta. 



49. TocKUs ciNGALENsis * (Legge, B. of C. p. 275, 

 pi. xiv.). 



Peculiar to Ceylon. I have obtained it both in the forests 

 of the dry zone as well as in the wet up to 3000 feet, and I 

 have at rare intervals seen it at 5000 feet. I am under 

 obligation to Mr. G. W. Jenkins for having obtained an egg 

 of this species for me from the Gillimali forests. It was a 

 dull white in colour and broadly oval in shape. Again, at 

 Pindeniya, in the Kegalla district, I found a newly-hatched 

 bird, just able to fly, being fed by both parents. The nest 

 was in the hollow of a Dipterocarpus zeylanicus at a great 

 height from the ground ; but I was unable to secure any 

 part of it, as the hen had broken her way out from the mud- 

 surroundings that undoubtedly are used. 



50. Upupa nigripennis (Legge, B. of C. p. 278). 



A strictly dry-zone bird. It is almost confined to the 

 borders of the south of the province next to the Hamban- 

 totta district, where it is fairly numerous in the open scrubby 

 plains. 



51. CoRAciAS iNDiCA (Lcgge, B. of C. p. 281). 



I have obtained this bird in the intermediate region be- 

 tween the wet and dry parts of the province, both in the 

 north and west. It appears to some extent to migrate 

 between these limits ; thus I have found it abundantly in 

 the wet-zone country adjoining the Colombo district, and 

 again in the hot plains below the Alagela mountain-range. 



52. EURYSTOMUS ORIENTALIS (Lcggc, B- of C. p. 285). 

 The distribution of this extremely rare bird is apparently 



confined to one part of the province, where I have found it 

 on the Gongala range of hills, and on a continuation of the 

 same chain of hills into the Rukulu Korah, where, in January 

 1893, I again met with it. The hills I refer to are on the 



* Surely this name should be written cingalensis, and not gingalensis, 

 as the latter is absurd. 



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