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to their . nests, and minivets' nests are so like the branch on 

 which they are built as to be practically undiscoverable from 

 below. 



500. Peeiceocotus peeegeinus, Linn. 



The small minivet in Kanara is very brilliantly coloured, and is 

 moderately common everywhere. I have taken its nest with fresh 

 eggs about Sirsi in April, and at Karwar in the end of October. 

 508. Campophaga sykesi, Strick. 



A very common cold weather visitant to every portion of Kanara 

 remaining till well on in May when it disappears. I do not think it 

 breeds in the district, but it may do so as I saw a single female at 

 Ankola on the 2nd June. This might however be merely a late 

 stayer, as its breeding range is not much further north. 

 510. Geauculus macei, Less. 



Moderately common both above and below the Ghats from Novem- 

 ber to the end of May (I find no record of having seen it in the rains). 

 I have only taken three nests, two at Sirsi in the beginning of April, 

 and one in the Yellapur taluka in March, and I am under the impres- 

 sion that few of the numbers seen in the cold weather stay to breed in 

 Kanara. It is, however, a shy bird while nesting, and the nest so 

 thoroughly harmonises with the bough it is placed on that it is possible 

 I may have occasionally passed over nests. 



512. Aetamus fuscus, Vieill. 



A permanent resident seen in every month, and found wherever 

 there are cocoa-nut gardens. I have taken eggs in March and 

 April from the east of Mundgode down to the coast, all were from 

 the tops of cocoa-nut or supari palms. 



514. Oeiolus indicus, Jerd. 



This bird is a straggler to Kanara in the cold weather. I have 

 only come across it twice ; both were in the month of February ; 

 on the first occasion there was a pair at Nilkund in the Siddapur 

 taluka, and on the second a single cock at Kutgul, east of 

 Kumta. 



518. Oeiolus kundoo, Sykes. 



A cold weather visitor, being found in great numbers everywhere 

 from November to the end of April. I have never seen it in the 

 rains, nor do I think it breeds in the district. 



