BIRDS ON THE PULNEY HILLS. 473 
276.—Pericrocotus peregrinus, Lin. 
Same as the last, but I found it a much rarer bird. 
278.—Buchanga atra, Herm. 
281.—Buchanga ccerulescens, Lin. 
Common on the slopes and in the Pittur valley. 
288.—Muscipeta paradisi, Zin. 
Pulungi. Only met with it once. 
*293.—Leucocerca leucogaster, Cuv. 
Pittur valley. Far from common. 
295.—Culicicapa ceylonensis, Sw. 
Common in all the sholas. 
297.—-Alseonax latirostris, Raff. 
Met with one far down the slopes. 
300.—Ochromela nigrorufa, Jerd. 
Saw it several times in the sholas round Kodikanal ; obtained 
one specimen. 
302.—Stoporala albicaudata. 
Kodikanal, Pulungi and Kukal ; got a nest at Kodikanal in 
June with two hard-set eggs. 
306.—Cyornis tickelli. 
I found this bird in the Pittur valley, and obtained a nest 
of dry fine grass far down the slopes in a hole in a bank the 
middle of June. 
339bis.—Callene albiventris. 
Met with it a few times in the big shola at Kodikanal and 
got two nests, each with two fresh eggs: the first on the 7th 
June in a hole ina tree between four and five feet from the 
ground, a deep cup of green moss; the other, in a hole 
in the bank of a path running through the shola, was of green 
moss and a few fine fern roots. Inside 1°75 inch deep and 2°50 
inches across ; outside a shapeless mass of moss filling up the hole 
it was built in. The nest was very conspicuous to any one 
passing by. 
