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is no doubt a partial migrant in this 

 country. It visits the Deccan only in the 

 rains. It is generally distributed through- 

 out that region but is much more common 

 in the north than in the south. In fact, 

 in many of the southern districts e.g., 

 Ratnagiri, Belgaum etc., it is found only 

 as a straggler. Fergusson, however, writ- 

 ing in the Journal of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society ( Vol. xv, p. 655 ), of the 

 birds of Travancore, says — "(7. jacolimts 

 is a resident and is fairly common in the 

 low country, more specially in the ex- 

 treme south." In Ceylon also, it is resi- 

 dent, but its movements about the island 

 seem to depend on the rains. 



Sometime back, the Bombay Natural 

 History Society issued an appeal to its 

 members to note the movements of birds 

 in this country. They appended thereto 

 a list of migrants in which we find that 

 the Koel and the Papiya have been 

 placed among partial migrants. But in 

 some places in the district of 24 Per- 



