402 A LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED AND 



with the same bulk of No. 12 shot, or what might be called 

 a quarter charge, 1 destroyed both specimens. 



302.— Stoporala albicaudata, Jerd. 



This noisy little Blue-bird has become a rather abundant 

 inhabitant of the thickets of the Kodaikanal and other groves 

 from 5,000 feet to the top of the hills. I obtained adults of 

 both sexes and also full grown young ones, in bluish olive 

 plumage, the feathers being tipped with yellowish, so as to give 

 the bird a spotted appearance similar to that of a young 

 black bird. 



c? — Kodaikanal, 8th June. — Length., 6'0 ; wing, 33 ; expanse, 

 10-0 ; tail, 3'0 ; tarsus, 08 ; bill from gape, 07 ; weight, 0'92 oz. 

 Bill and feet, black ; mouth, dusky black ; iris, very dark brown. 



$ — Kodaikanal, 1st June. — Length, 6'0 ; wing, 3'1 ; ex- 

 panse, 9 "8 ; tail, 27 ; tarsus, 0'8 ; bill from gape, 07 ; weight, 

 075 oz. Bill and feet, black. 



$ — Kodaikanal, 1st June. — Length, 6 ; wing, 3*1; ex- 

 panse, 9'8; tail, 27 ; tarsus, 0*8 ; bill from gape, 07 ; weight, - 8 

 oz. Bill, black ; feet, leaden black, of a lighter color than those 

 of the male. 



(?) — Kodaikanal, 2\st June, (sex not noted) — Length, 5*8 ; 

 wing, 2-9; expanse, 8'8 ; tarsus, 0"8; bill from gape, 7; 

 weight, 075 oz. 



*305 & 306.— Cyornis tickelliae, Blyih. 



Took one and observed it unfrequently from top to bottom 

 of the hills. 



*339 his.— Callene albiventris, FairbanJc, W. T. 

 Blanford. P. Z. S., 14th Nov. 1867, PL xxxix.* 



I obtained one pair in 1867 with their nest and two eggs 

 all in the Kodai grove on the top of the Palanis. They were 

 described by Mr. Blanford in the Proceedings of the Zoo, and 

 afterwards they were figured in Gould's Birds of Asia. I am 

 not aware that additional specimens have been obtained since, 

 until I found them in the same locality again in May and June 

 this year. They live in the thickets of the Kodaikanal, and I 

 obtained one in another grove at the u Pillar Rocks." As 

 May is their nesting season, and they indulge in a sweet 

 song in the evening twilight, it is not difficult to trace 

 them, though it is difficult to see them in the thickets far 

 enough away to allow of shooting them without tearing them 

 to pieces. But sometimes they come out of the thickets in the 



* This plate shows a great deal more white on the abdomen than appears 

 in the specimens now sent me by Mr. Fairbank. — Ed., 8. F. 



