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sought for among tlie foliage of trees, tliough I once sliot 

 one which I had watched for some time catching insects on 

 the wing over a tank, like a Bee-eater, for it swooped after 

 its prey over the water, generally returning to the same perch 

 in a clump of bamboos. 



19. Pekicrocotus peregrinus. (Small Minivet.) 



Not uncommon, generally distributed, and resident. 

 Usually seen in small parties, even in the breeding-season, 

 searching for their food, of insects, among the foliage of the 

 trees, or more rarely catching them on the wing. 



20. Campophaga sykesi, (Black-headed Cuckoo-Shrike.) 

 I have noticed this species only during the rainy season 



(from June to September), and at no other time of the year ; 

 even then it is not by any means common. 



21. Artamus fuscus. (Ashy Swallow-Shrike.) 



Arrives in considerable numbers towards the end of the rainy 

 season, about August, and leaves again before the hot weather 

 commences in March. They may often be seen sitting 

 huddled together on the bare top of some tree, as many 

 as twenty or thirty together; and towards evening many 

 may be seen flying southwards over Titaghur, probably seek- 

 ing some general and favourite roosting-place. 



22. Oriolus melanocephalus. (Black-headed Oriole.) 

 Very plentiful, resident, and generally distributed. They 



usually have eggs at the beginning of May and June, though 

 I once shot a young one, which had not long left the nest, on 

 April 13th. 



A pair of these birds frequently inhabits the same compound, 

 plantation, or orchard, and breeds there, often even in the 

 same tree, year after year, if undisturbed. Their nests are, 

 perhaps, more often pillaged by Dendrocitta rufa than by any 

 other bird, and it is a common sight to see the robber 

 pursued by an indignant pair of these brightly-plumaged 

 birds. 



23. Sturnia malabarica. (Grey-headed Mynah.) 

 Common, generally distributed, and resident. Breeds in 



