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on both Amini and Cardamum, and, though we met with it no- 
where else, itis a bird clearly recognized by the people. There 
is no reason to believe that it breeds here. 
214.—Kudynamis honorata, L 
We procured this species on every inhabited island that we 
visited. Unless perhaps at Amini, where there are Crows and 
one or two of the Cannanore Islands, at which also this latter 
species occurs, they can only be, as the people affirm, seasonal 
visitants—there being no bird in whose nests they could lay 
their eggs. 
637.—Zosterops palpebrosus, Tem. 
The White-eyed Tit is the one resident land bird of the group. 
Crows also are resident in one or two islands, but the Tit occurs 
in every inhabited island that we touched at. 
663.—Corvus splendens, Vieiil. 
The Common Crow was pretty abundant in Amini, but we 
saw it at no other island. We heard, however, that it also oc- 
curred at one or two of the Cannanore Islands which we did not 
Visit. 
The Crows at Amini are a very dusky race. The pale collar 
ill marked, and one or two specimens recall C. insolens of 
Burmah. 
845.—Charadrius fulvus, Gel. 
We saw and shot single individuals of the Asiatic Golden 
Plover at almost every island in the group that we visited, but 
it was only at Amini that we saw any considerable number of 
the species. There, there were certainly fifty, not immediately 
on the shore, but feeding about in twos and threes in a small 
comparatively bare plot of ground densely studded with clumps 
and beds of the curious Sea-Pink grass (Spintfex squarrosus, L.) 
already referred to. 
846.—Agialitis Geoffroyi, Wagler. 
Not very uncommon atthe islands. We saw, I suppose, a 
dozen at Cardamum and Kiltan, and I believe saw, but failed to 
shoot it, at one other island. 
847.—Aigialitis mongolicus, Pail. 
We obtained three specimens at Cardamum, and ae think, 
were all we saw. 
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