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588. Alseonax latirosteis, Raffl. 



The commonest of all flycatchers from October to the end of March, 

 but as a rule not one is visible after the first week in April. I however 

 saw a pair on the 7th May, 1893, at Birchia^, which were no doubt 

 breeding, as on the 4th May, 1895, I was marching from Halyal to 

 Birchia, and a friend walked out with me for a few miles. Just as I 

 parted from him I saw one of these birds fly from a tree overhanging 

 the road. I followed it into the forest to be sure it was A. latirostris, 

 and had I any doubt I would have shot it ; as there was none, how- 

 ever, I walked back to the road and was moving off when the bird 

 flew again over my head to the same tree, a " matti " one. I glanced 

 hack as it flow, and saw it light on a lump in the branch, and 

 returning saw there was a nest. I sent a boy up the tree and he 

 reported four eggs, which after some difficulty were safely got down, 

 and I shot the bird as a proof of its breeding so far south. The nest 

 was a large solid one composed of green moss and lichen, and lined 

 with a few fibres and some feathers mostly oriole's. It was about fifteen 

 feet from the ground and in the middle of a horizontal branch. It 

 contained four extremely small olive-green eggs, a good deal smaller 

 than others of this bird received from the neighbourhood of Mhow. 

 589. Alseonax etjficatjdtjs, Swains. 



I have only seen this bird three times in Kanara, once in February, 

 1889, at Nilkund, and in December, 1898 and 1895, at Malemane in the 

 same place ; both Nilkund and Malemane are in Siddapur on the 

 ridge of the Ghats. 



590. Alseonax muttui, Layard. 



I obtained a single specimen of this bird in the south of the Bhutkul 

 petta on the 20th January, 1889. It was in a thick mass of screw-pine 

 above some water in thin forest. I have never seen another specimen. 

 It may easily be known by its almost white legs and feet. 

 592. Ctjllicicapa ceylonensis, Swains. 



I saw one specimen of this bird at Supa on the 23rd February, 1896, 

 but I failed to secure it. 



598. Teepsiphone paradisi, Linn. 



This bird is generally distributed in Kanara from November to the 

 beginning of May. I have never seen it in the rains at Karwar, nor 

 on the top of the Ghats at Anshi, and I am inclined to think it does 



