132 BIRDS OF MYSORE. 



snakes are represented by the poisonous hooded cobra, 

 the long green tank snake and the common whip ; 

 besides frogs, lizards, bloodsuckers, and tortoises. 



Fishes — there are said to be a good variety in some 

 of the larger rivers ; I have seen none but a few 

 perch, carp, and eel. Amongst insects, which seem 

 to enjoy special privileges in hot climates, one here 

 never escapes the fly, mosquito, B flat, or F sharp, and 

 millions of ants, white, red, green, and black. I have 

 frequently met with ant-hills in the jungle six to 

 ten feet high ; then there are hornets, grasshoppers, 

 and beetles ; of the latter there is the pretty golden- 

 green, whose wings are much used in the embroidering 

 of dresses and shoes, also bees and some fine butterflies; 

 leeches wherever you walk during the wet season, 

 whilst your walls are alive with creeping abominations, 

 scorpions, spiders, and centipedes. 



Amongst the birds inhabiting these forests and 

 swamps are the green parakeet, the yellow-breasted 

 Thrush, the Cookoo, the pretty orange minivet or 

 mango bii'd, as he is here called, the warbler, and the 

 beautiful paradise Flycatcher (Tchitrea paradisi) whose 

 adult male is a small white bird with blue-black head 

 and crest, and two central tail feathers prolonged 

 fifteen to twenty inches beyond the ordinary tail, 

 forming two long silvery streamers. This bird, which 



