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26. The White-vented Drongo. D.leucopygialis. Indigenous. 

 "It is entirely insectivorous, its diet consisting chiefly of 



beetles, bugs, termites and such like." 



27. The Ceylon Black Drongo. Dissemuroides lophorhinus. 



Indigenous. 

 " Damp forests and even their most gloomy recesses are fre- 

 quented by this fine bird It feeds on beetles and the many 



larger members of the insect kingdom which afiect Ceylon 

 forests." 



28. The Larger Eacket-tailed Drongo. Dissemurus 



paracUseus. 

 " Feeds chiefly at dusk when the bats come out." 

 The distribution of this family in the island is to be noted. 

 The first species is confined to the Jaffna peninsula and north- 

 west coast : I found it abundant on the opposite Indian coast in 

 March. The second is migratory and does not breed in the island. 

 The third is of general distribution. The fourth is confined to 

 the heavy forests of the Western Province. The fifth to the 

 North and Eastern Provinces. 



Fam. Sylviid^. Warblers, 



29. The Indian Great Reed- Warbler. Acrocejyhcdus stentoreus. 

 *' The diet consists of small flies and minute insects." 



30. Blyth's Reed-Warbler. A. dumetorum. Migrant. 



31. The Rufous Fantail. Cisticola cursitcms. 



" The diet of this species in Ceylon consists of many sorts of 

 small insects and caterpillars." " The indigestible parts of the 

 food, which consists of small beetles, caterpillars and little snails, 

 are thrown up in pellets." {.Terdon) 



32. Franklin's Wren-Warbler. Franklinia gracilis. 



" The food consists of small insects, which it picks up among the 

 dead wood to which it is so partial." 



33. The Broad-tailed Grass- Warbler. Schcenicola platyura. 



" Feeds on the ground," {Oates.) 



34. The Greenish Willow- Warbler. Acanthopneusteviridanus. 



A migrant. 



35. The Ashy Wren- Warbler. Prinia socialis. 



" Its food consists of insects ; but occasionally I have found 

 small seeds in its stomach." 



36. The Jungle Wren- Warbler. Prinia sylvatica. 



*' Its food consists of small coleoptera and other minute insects," 



