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many fairly common visitors I did not succeed in coming across, as till 

 the very end of my time in Kanara I was occasionally making additions 

 to my list. 



I append a list of all birds noticed by me together with any notes I 

 think of sufficient interest to justify publishing, and follow Oates and 

 Blanford's " Fauna of British India " as the most recent work on the 

 subject in classification and nomenclature, the numbers used being from 

 that work as far as it is as yet published. 



4. CoitVUS MACEOEHYNCHUS, Wag. 



Common all over the district at all seasons. It breeds both above 

 and below the Ghats in March and April. 



7. Coevus splendens, Vieill. 



This crow is local in Kanara, avoiding all the dense forest country. 

 It is common everywhere along the coast, and is fairly abundant in 

 the extreme North-east of the district on the Dharwar border, and I 

 have seen a straggler at Siddapur. Below the Ghats along the coast 

 it breeds in October and November, and not in the beginning of the 

 rains, as in other parts of the country. 



16. Dendeocitta rufa, Scop, 



This magpie is abundant everywhere in the district both in the 

 forests, and in the scrub around the villages. Its nests are built in 

 March, and eggs are found all through the end of that month and 

 April. 



17. Dendeocitta leucogastea, Gould. 



This magpie is very local, and even in the places it is found it is rare. 

 The place I have seen it oftenest is at Nilkund on the crest of the 

 Ghats between Siddapur and Kumta. I have also seen it at Devimane 

 on the crest of the Ghats between Sirsi and Kumta, and in the broken 

 country west of Siddapur. Mr. Bell tells me he saw a pair near the 

 Bara Ghat further North, also on the ridge of the Ghat. It keeps as a 

 rule among the more open forest, in the immediate neighbourhood 

 however of evergreen jungle. 



I have only once found its nest, and that was at Devimane, 

 and in the beginning of April it contained young. The nest was a 

 small one, placed in a tree about ten feet from the ground. On the 

 27th March, 1893, I shot a female containing a fully formed but 

 unshelled eg£. 



