396 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE NILGHIRIS 
It is a very familiar bird, and not at all shy, and will trip 
along looking for insects. They arrive in September, and have 
almost all left by the end of March. 
(593.—Budytes cinereocapillus, Savi. The Slatey- 
headed Field Wagtail. 
I have seen this from Wynaad and 8. Mysore.—A. O. H. | 
59 ?—Budytes Sp.? Field Wagtail ? 
In former years, when I neither collected nor worked at birds, 
Isaw during the cold weather on several occasions a Budytes on 
the marshy banks of the fake at Ootacamund, but I have not 
recently been able to procure a specimen for identification. 
[594 1s.—Budytes citreolus, Pall. The Grey-backed 
Yellow Wagtail. 
Several specimens were sent from the Wynaad.—A. O. H.] 
595.—Limonidromus indicus, Gm. The Vorest 
Wagtail. 
This species, which Jerdon classes as a Wactail, is as far as 
habits at any rate go, much more of a Pipit. Jerdon well de- 
scribes it as a “wood-loving species.”” I have shot a good number 
in my time, but I certainly never met with it in the open. I have 
always found it under cover. It is usually found singly, ocea- 
sionally in pairs in thin tree jungle, feeding on the ground. 
When disturbed, it either runs along the ground till some dis- 
tance away, when it takes wing, or else rises at once and flies up 
into some tree, generally alighting on some large bough, along 
which it walks, and then flies on to another, and so on till, if it 
sees danger still present, it flies off to another part of the jungle ; 
or, if it thinks all is quiet, drops on to the ground, and recom- 
mences feeding. The only note I have heard it utter is a feeble 
sharp chip. This it utters chiefly when disturbed, but oceasionally 
also when quietly feeding. It seems to live entirely on insects. 
‘At least I have never found anything but insects, chiefly the 
‘remains of ants, in those I have examined. It occurs all over 
the Nilchiris, Wynaad, and the Mysore country through which 
I passed, but it is rare. 
596.—Anthus maculatus, Hodgs. The Indian Tree 
Pipit. | 
This Pipit is a cold weather visitant to the south in large 
numbers, and spreads over the whole of the Nilghiris, the 
Wynaad, and Mysore. It is always in small flocks, and feeds, 
