AND IN PARTS OF WYNAAD AND SOUTHERN Mysore. 403. 
704.—Estrelda amandava, Lin. The Red Waxbill. 
I did not notice this species in the Wynaad, nor in those 
parts of Mysore which I traversed, but it is common on the 
Nilghiris and its slopes, most numerous perhaps on the table- 
land, where it frequents the cultivation. They are always in 
flocks (even in the breeding season apparently), and when rising, 
flying, or alighting, they keep up a continuous feeble, sharp, 
single note. This note too they occasionally utter when seated 
on the ground, feeding. They breed, asa rule, in thorny bushes, 
building a large globular nest of grass (generally green), but 
never lining it wit feathers as JZunia punctulata does. Ihave 
never, that [ am aware, seen it perch on trees or bushes, except 
during the breeding season when it is building its nest. 
706.—Passer domesticus, Lin. The Sparrow. 
Common everywhere where there are human habitations ; the 
Sparrow is specially abundant on the Nilghiris, and about the 
Badaga villages large flocks may be seen feeding in the fields. 
As a rule Sparrows build about houses, but on the road between 
Ootacamund and Coonoor large numbers breed in the holes in 
the steep cuttings on the road. 
711.—Gymnoris flavicollis, Frankl. The Yellow. 
necked Sparrow. 
This Sparrow occurs on the slopes of the Nilghiris to about 
4,000 feet elevation. I have also seen it in Wynaad and Mysore. 
I have found it most numerous on the Seegore Ghat. I 
have never seen it in the large flocks Jerdon speaks of, but in 
small parties, in pairs, and even singly. I have never found it 
near habitations, but always in thin tree jungle. 
[722.—Euspiza luteola, Sparrm. The Red-headed 
Corn Bunting. 
Oceurs in the south and south-west of Mysore, and I believe 
in the Wynaad also at times.— A. O. H.] 
738.—Carpodacus erythrinus, Pal/, The Common 
Rose Finch. 
A cold weather visitant, and found all over the district, but 
especially numerous on the Nilghiris, where it remains till quite 
late, till the last week in April, at any rate, for I have shot 
specimens then; the males are then in nearly full breeding 
plumage. Itis always in flocks, and feeds about gardens, 
&c., on seeds. I have never seen it feeding except when there 
was a good deal of cover close at hand to which it could easily 
