ni-PORT [JJ'ON TWO COLLECTIONS OF MYRIOPODA. 131 



As regards their liabits I do not think I can say anything beyond 

 that they appear to be shier and somewhat less noisy birds than 

 their Himalayan relations. They seem to be partially migratory, 

 and during the cold season I have not seen half a dozen bii'ds 

 in as many years. They are confined to the East and Sonth- 

 East of the district, and, as I have already said, to a certain extent 

 replace //. 7^iaro;V/c5 iu that part, though even there they are 

 less common than that bird is. I have never seen a bird further 

 West than the centre of the Sub-division, and only once as far as 

 that. Another thing that seems to point to their being more or 

 less migratory is that certain seasons they are more common than 

 in others. Thus in 1891 and 1889 they were very plentiful, 

 comparatively speaking, in 1888 and 1890 they were rarely met with, 

 and amongst my notes I have not one concerning any bird or nest 

 taken iu 1887. 



REPORT UPON TWO COLLECTIONS OF MYRIOPODA 



SENT FROM CEYLON BY Mr. E. E. GREEN, AND 



FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF SOUTHERN INDIA 



BY Mr. EDGAR THURSTON, OF THE 



GOVERNMENT CENTRAL MUSEUM, 



MADRAS. 



By R. I. PococK, of the British (Nat. Hist.) Museum. 



iWith Plates I. and II.) 



( Head before the Bombay Natural Eistory Society, 5th April, 1892.) 



In seeking the honour of laying this paper before the Natural 

 History Society of Bombay, it has been my hope that from the 

 information thus afforded something, however little, is being done 

 to throw light upon Myriopod fauna of India, and that it may induce 

 naturalists resident iu that country to pay attention to these little- 

 known animals. 



The neglect that this group, as a whole, has met with, is a 

 circumstance sufficiently familiar at least to all who have studied it. 

 Nor is an explanation of this hard to find, for the species that com- 

 pose it are lacking in almost all those attributes which reconmiend 

 more favoured ones to the notice of collectors. They arc difficult 



