OBSERVED ON THE PALANI HILLS. 405 



? Shemiganur, 23rd May. — Length, 8'8 ; wing, 3-3 ; expanse, 

 100 ; tail, 4*0 ; tarsus, 1*4 ; bill from gape, 10 ; weight, 1*6 oz. 



* 434.— Malacocircus malabaricus, Jerd. 



Common at the base and in thin jungle on the sides of the 

 hills, up to 4,500 feet. I ought to have collected and measured 

 more of them. The dimensions of the only one, a male, that I 

 obtained were as follows : — 



c? Vengayam Parry, 1st June. — Length, 10*0 ; wing, 3*9 ; 

 expanse, 12*5; tail, .4*0; tarsus, 1*5; bill from gape, 1*0 ; 

 weight, 24 oz. Iris, light straw color, almost white ; bill and 

 legs, yellowish dusky. 



* 438.— Chatarrhaea caudata, Bum, 



Plenty at the base of the hills. 



* 445 & 446— Hypsipetes ganeesa, Sijkes. 



In groves both at the top of the hills and on the Lower 

 Palanis. They affect the highest trees, and, in June, were found 

 only in noisy flocks of twenty or thirty each. 



Shemiganur, at 5,000 feet, 1st June. — Length, 9*5 ; wino-, 

 4*6 ; expanse, 14*0 ; tail, 4; tarsus, 075 ; bill from gape, 1*1 ; 

 weight, 1*75 oz. Bill, orange vermilion; feet, orange yellow; 

 iris, hazel, dyed with lake red. 



* 450— Criniger ictericus, Strickl. 



From 4,000 feet to the top, in small flocks. 



452— Ixos luteolus, Less. 



This bird is common at the East base of the hills and is very 

 noisy in the morning, but it remains hid in or among thick 

 bushes, and so it is difficult to obtain good specimens. 



455.— Rubigula gularis, Gould. 



I found this bird by Vengayam Parry in 1867, and kept a 

 specimen for a while, but it long ago went into other hands. 

 This year I was unable to find one, and I think it likely that it 

 visits the Palanis during a part of the year only. 



460 bis.— Otocompsa fuscicaudata, Gould. 



This is the most abundant bird on the tops of the hills, just 

 as it is at Mahabaleshwar, and it is found to the bottom. 



* 462 — Molpastes haemorrhous, Gm. 



This is more abundant at the bottom and in the adjacent 

 plains, but is found at the top of the hills. 



