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•golden yellow, dappled with emerald green, and "tinged in 

 places with orange ; wings green, mottled with bright 

 yellow ; quills of the normal colour, but tipped with yellowish 

 white ; beneath bright but paler yellow than the back, mot- 

 tled with bright pale grass-green ; throat yellowish ; cheeks 

 rufescent; underwing- coverts mottled green, yellow and 

 straw colour. 



Among the birds %iet' with at certain seasons on the 

 coast near Balapitiya, the following are usually considered 

 to be confined to the Hills : Hirundo Hyperythro^ Layard ; 

 ^occurs also in the lower Kandyan Hills and beyond Korne- 

 galle on the Putlam road. 



'Dendropliila frontalis, Horsf, found also at Eatnapura 

 and Nuwara Eliya. 



Parus cinereus. Vieill, which is the u Grey Tit" of 

 Nuwara Eliya. 



Batraeliostomus Moniliger, Layard; found also at Happu- 

 tella, Avisawella and Ratnapura, but one of our rarest birds. 



The grey crow, Gorvus splendens, occurs between Kalu- 

 tara and Galle only at Induruwa, and nowhere else 

 and there is no doubt it is not indigenous to the South 

 of the Island, having been introduced by the Dutch 

 at their various stations, as a propagator of Cinnamon, 

 the seeds of which it rejects uninjured. By the sam& 

 agency, the Margosa, introduced from Jaffna, is being dif- 

 fused all round Kalpentin, and will soon form a leading 

 feature in the vegetation of the Akkara Pattu. 



When the jungle fowl, Qallus Lafayetti, Lesson, is run- 

 ning, the cock bird -carries its tail almost stiaight, like the 

 English Pheasant, and not nearly erect as in the domesti- 

 cated breeds. This fact is analogous to the tails of wolves, 

 and various breeds of dogs. 



In the Society's Museum was a mutilated skin of the 



