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252. Chlokopsis jerdoni, Blyth. 



A common bird everywhere in Kanara. I have taken nests in July, 



August, September and October about Karwar, and above Ghats in 



February, March and April. I think that below Ghats it also breeds 



in the spring, as in May I have seen young at Karwar just able to fly. 



254. Irene puella, Lath. 



A common and noisy bird in Kanara, seen wherever there is thick 

 forest, especially evergreen, except in the extreme north-east of the 

 district about Halyal. It is rather a shy bird, and also much resembles 

 a Merula while dodging among the trees, and is constantly overlooked 

 by any one not knowing its notes ; so much is this the case that a good 

 ornithologist who had been over a year in Kanara told me he had only 

 noticed it once or twice, and I think had not procured a specimen. 

 Except about Karwar in the rains, when it goes about in flocks and is 

 seen only in particular places, it is very generally distributed, and 

 travelling about on tour, 1 hardly passed a day without noticing it. I 

 have taken many nests ; they are as a rule some fifteen or twenty feet 

 from the ground in the centre of a pollarded tree, often quite invisible 

 from below and only to be discovered when on knocking the trunk 

 with a stick the hen flies off. I once however took a nest at Yellapur 

 on a leafless tree some twelve feet up. The nests are large loose 

 structures, composed of coarse twigs with an inner layer of green moss 

 and lined with fine sticks. The number of eggs or young has been 

 invariably two, and I have taken the nests from the end of February 

 to the middle of April. 



271. Hypsipetes ganeesa, Sykes. 



Widely distributed and locally common in a few places, mostly on 

 the ridge of the Ghats. It is rather a shy bird and difficult to see in 

 the thick forests it inhabits. I have only taken two nests ; one at 

 Siddapur on the 15th March was about fifteen feet up a tree in a mass 

 of creepers, and was a regular bulbul's nest lined with hair, and the 

 other was composed mainly of green moss lined with hair, and was 

 near the top of a sapling in the edge of evergreen forest. This was at 

 Nilkund, where the bird is very common. 



278. Molpastes h^morrhous, Gm. 



This is of course very common in Kanara as elsewhere and is 

 found all over the district. Above Ghats it breeds in February, 



