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901. Arachnechthra zeylonica, Linn. 

 A very common bird about Karwar, and generally distributed along 

 the coast. Above Ghats it is rare in the east of the district, and I have 

 not found it along the ridge of the Ghats, nor, I think, in the central 

 portion. It breeds about Karwar in the end of the rains. The nest 

 is much like that of A. asiatica, but, if possible, neater, and the eggs 

 undistinguishable from pale forms of that bird. 



909. Arachnothera longirosteis, Lath. 



This bird is common in the plantain gardens in Sirsi, Siddapur 

 and Yellapur, and I have seen specimens at Bhutkul. It is very shy, 

 and though one may hear its alarm cry on entering a garden, it is diffi- 

 cult to get even a sight of the bird. It breeds on the underside of 

 plantain leaves in the gardens from February to the beginning of April, 

 making a large nest sewn under the leaf. The first nest I found had 

 two entrances, but some twenty I have found since have had only one. 

 The nests are composed of dead leaves and lined with fibre. The eggs 

 are long-shaped, pale pink, covered with minute darker spots, and with 

 a regular dark pink ring of these spots round the larger end. 

 916. DiciEUM concolor, Jerd. 



This bird is probably not uncommon above Ghats in Kanara, but on 

 the wing can hardly be distinguished from the nest. The only speci- 

 men I possess I shot from the nest. This was on the road from Sonda 

 to Manchikeri in the Sirsi taluka. The nest and eggs were similar to 

 those of the next species, but are a little larger. 



919. Dictum erythrorhyn chits, Lath. 

 This bird is common all over the district, breeding from February to 

 April. 



921. PlPRISOMA SQALIDUM, Burt. 



This bird is local, but I have seen specimens and taken nests through 

 the whole of the above-Ghat parts, and I have noticed the bird in the 

 Kumta taluka below Ghats. It lays in March and April. 

 933. Pitta brachyura, Linn. 



A permanent resident, generally distributed along the coast and 

 along the forests, except the extreme eastern ones. It is shy, and I 

 have not noticed it often in the cold weather ; but it becomes common 

 about March, and continues so till the breeding season in the rains, the 

 cocks singing in the extreme tops of the trees. It breeds abundantly 



