ANIMAL AND PLANT LIFE. 163 
89. U.malabarica. Seen at Kumuna. 
90. U. striata. Common. Plentiful in the Panawa rice fields. 
Kumbukkan valley, Wattegama. and Muppane. 
91. Artamus fuscus. Common at Barawaya, Ellebubbura, 
abundant at Pottuvil. 
92. Acridotheres melanosternus. At Panawa and near coast, 
and plentiful at Monaragala, Wattegama ; not generally common. 
93. Hulabes religiosa. Common up the Heda-oya valley. 
Plentiful at Ellebubbura, Liyangolla, and the Kumbukkan valley, 
down to the coast. 
94. Columba intermedia. From a description given to me 
1 think this bird occurs at Okanda, but personally I did not 
observe it. 
95. Turtur suratensis. Common throughout the whole of the 
Vedda country where there is any open land ; especially common 
in fields. 
96. Chalcophaps indica. Common. The variability of the 
bearing of the tail feathers is striking. 
97. Carpophaga xnea, locally called Godabowa, is fairly 
common, especially in the valleys of the larger streams, such as 
the Heda-oya, the Kurapan-oya, and the Kumbukkan river. 
The following measurements I took from examples shot at 
Newgala and the Kurapan-oya, respectively : 
6 Length 15 in., tail 5°75 in., wing 8°25 in., bill 1°25 in, 
tarsus 1-12 in. 
3 Length 15°25 in., tail 6°00 in., wing 8°00 in., bill 1°25 in., 
tarsus 0°87 in. ; 

98. Osmotreron bicincta. Common right down to the coast 
line, especially where ripe Banyan fruit is plentiful. 
99. O. pompadora. Common like the last, but, perhaps, more 
abundant. 
100. Pavo cristatus. I did not see a single trace of Peafowl 
in Uva. All downthe coast from Pottuvil to the Kumbukkan it 
is common over a belt of country varying from 6 to 15 miles in 
width, but these birds appear to exclude themselves from high 
forests. 
Near Lahugala I found cock birds more plentiful than hens, 
and at Bargura I saw a procession of eleven cock birds walking 
in single file down to a pool. Hens appear to be either solitary 
or more shy than the males, hence their seeming rarity. 
101. Gallus lafayetti. Exceedingly common, and, like the last, 
the males are seemingly more common than the females. 
There is much reason to believe that this species crosses with 
the village fowl, but evidence as to further intercrossing is obscure, 
as no definite examples of connected history can be obtained 
from a people to whom such a subject is of no interest. In the 
text reference has been made to distinct strains of domestic 
fowls that, it may be assumed, have developed without any 
definite human intervention, and it is beyond demonstration to 
show how these strains came to be established ; but whether the 
variation arose from the cross-breeding of domestic birds with 
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