146 hetter.<<, Extracts, Notices, &;c. 



Ootacamund, 

 Oct. 20, 1887. 



Sirs, — I had hoped to have been able to send you papers 

 on the birds I collected on the Anamullai Hills and in Ti'a- 

 vancore, but a press of work has prevented my doing so ; and 

 as I have now to go to Singapore with as little delay as 

 possible to take up my appointment as Curator and Librarian 

 of the Raffles Museum, I may not have the time to finish 

 the papers. I would wish, however, to put on record a few 

 facts about the birds which I collected. 



I have to add two species to Mr. Bourdillon's list of Tra- 

 vancore birds, viz., Alseonax muthei, Layard, of which I 

 obtained four males, and Zosterops ceylonensis, Holdsworth, 

 of which I obtained six specimens. I also got four specimens 

 of Callene albiventris, Fairbanks and numerous specimens of 

 Trochalopteron meridionale, Blanford, and Alcippe bourdilloni, 

 Hume. All these birds were obtained late in December and 

 early in January, on the Chimpani Hills dividing Travancore 

 Territory from the Tinevelly District. 



Mr. T. Fulton Bourdillon has lately sent me a specimen 

 of Batrachostomiis momlkjer, Layard, and one of Lyncornis 

 bourdilloni, Hume. Of this latter he says, writing from 

 '' Camp Konegur" : — 



" This bird seems to be local, but not uncommon where it 

 does occur, for I have seen one or two every night for the 

 last two or three weeks since I have been here. They come 

 out, however, very late; just as the last tinge of colour is 

 fading out of the sky, one may see one or two of these birds 

 sailing over the fields, seldom flapping their wings, but 

 quartering the ground like a Harrier. They do not remain 

 in one place, but travel about a great deal, but seem to 

 return to the same neighbourhood night after night, unless 

 one is shot, when they all disappear for four or five days. 



''As a rule they fly slow, at about the same pace as a Harrier, 

 except when moving from one place to another, when they 

 go at a great pace, striking the air with vigorous wings." 



The only novelty as to locality that I have to record from 

 the Anamullai Hills is Pycnonotus xantholcernvs, Jerdon. I 



