land to other localities, and is exceedingly abundant on the- 

 Gtalle Face. * This Pipit breeds in this district from July to 

 September, and builds the same cup-shaped nest under the 

 shelter of a tuft of grass or little inequality in the gound that 

 the European meadow Pipit does. The eggs are three in number, 

 ground colour greenish white, thickly spotted with two shades 

 of sepia, and blotted here and there with bluish grey. Axi& 

 Splines, diam. 6 lines. This bird is a very close sitter, proba- 

 bly on acconnt of its nest being exposed to lizards and other, 

 ground reptiles,, 

 ZOSTEROPS Palpebrosus (Temniinck.) The white-eyed Tit.. 



This Tit is widely distributed, found in the hills and plenti. 

 ful about Colombo and the low-country in its vicinity, I 

 notice that it appears in this neighbourhood in July, and is com- 

 mon in the groves in the Cinnamon Gardens, about that time. 

 It may also be seen,, or rather its clear note may be heard, in the 

 tops of the Suriah trees in the Fort during August and 

 September. It has the sams whistle as, the Australian bird 

 £. dorsalfe. It affects by choice thick jungle, flying in flocks 

 from tree to tree, and searching among the top- most branches 

 and leaves for larvae. As soon as the flock has overhauled one 

 tree the whole take flight, and move on to the next, whistling 

 all the while. A nest I found in August in the Pooprassi dis^ 

 trict, was made of fine grass stalks, very frail, and placed high, 

 up on the horizontal branch of a tree. 



Corvus Spldndins ( Vieillot. ) 

 Although the common Indian Crow is not strictly gregarious, 

 it resembles the Rook of Europe in some of its habits, roosting 

 often in flocks, and building where a suitable locality presents 

 itself, in company. There is this difference, however, that, though 



• I have found it in the Hills up to 500 feet. 



