ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE. 161 
45. C. indicus. Common down the coast from Pottuvil to 
Kumuna. 
46. Corvus macrorhynchus. Common where there are in- 
habited villages only. 
47. Oriolus melanocephalus. Common right to the coast. 
48. Graucalus macvi. Found at Ampitiya. 
49. Pericrocotus flammeus. Common in the Heda-oya valley. 
50. Lalage sykesi. Found at Muduwa, Kumuna, and plentiful 
up the Kumbukkan valley. 
51. Tephrodornis pondicerianus. Heard at Pottuvil and at 
Lahugala. 
52. Dissemurus lophorhynus. I suspect that this bird occurs, 
but not having actually shot one I include it doubtfully from 
Kumbukkan valley. 
53. D. paradiseus (locally called Kudamahawaraliya) is very 
plentiful all through the Vedda country forest area. Unlike its 
relations in the Sabaragamuwa Province it does not associate with 
numbers of the Malacocerci. The following measurements of 
examples were obtained :-— 
$ Length 17 in., tail 12 in., wing 5°87 in., bill 1°37 in., tarsus 
Lin. 
9 Length 134 in., tail 8 in., wing 5°25 in., bill 1 in., tarsus 
1 in. 
54. Bucanga leucopygialis. Plentiful west of Siyambala- 
anduwa. 
55. Terpsiphone paradis?. Seenat Pottuvil, Panawa, Okanda, 
and in Kumbukkan valley. 
56. Hypothymis azurea. Common. I found a nest of this 
species on the summit of ‘“‘ Westminster Abbey.” It oceurs com- 
paratively sparingly in the Eastern Province. 
57. Rhipidura albifrontata. See text. 
58. Cyornis tickelli. Common at a place south-east of 
Kotiyagoda, and at Ellebubbura, Liyangolla, Etmole, and the 
base of ‘‘ Westminster Abbey.” 
59. Copsychus saularis. Common up to the Heda-oya, but 
not seen east of “‘ Westminster Abbey.” Few at Lahugala, plentiful 
south of Pottuvil. 
60. Cuttocincla macrura. Abundant right to the coast. The 
local name is Sudu-waraliya. 
61. Thamnobia fulicata. Comparatively scarce. Found 
breeding at Lahugala ; occurs down the coast to Kumuna. 
62. Turdus spiloptera. Heard in the high forest south of 
Degalhela, but nowhere else. : 
63. Hypsipetes ganeesa. Plentiful at Kotiyagoda, Heda-oya 
valley, Bowela, Etmole, and towards Monaragala. 
64. Tole icterica. Common in the Heda-oya and Kurapan-oya 
valleys, but scarce north and east of Degalhela. Not seen west 
of Kodiyana. 
65. Pycnonotus luteolus. Common right to coast. 
66. P. melanicterus, Common in the river valleys, especially 
near Kumuna westwards. 
