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•search will extend its range beyond the limits I now assign, 

 to it. It was discovered in one of the primary forests of- 

 the Gangebodde Pattoo, not far from Galle, and after 

 -wards traced by me through the Hinedoom Pattoo to the 

 Lion King Forest (Singha Raja Avuka), on the southern ^^" c 

 ■ borders of the Kookool Korle, where I procured it at an 

 elevation of about 2500 feet above the sea level. It is there- 

 'fore, like most of our forest-loving birds (the limits of 

 whose distribution, by the way, have been very erroneously 

 fixed) both a low country and hill species. The district 

 lying to the North of the valley which divides the central 

 mountain group from the Southern ranges, or, in other 

 words, the region extending from Ratnapoora to the 

 Hapootella slopes has been searched by naturalists and 

 collectors without meeting with this bird, and therefore it 

 may be concluded that it is confined to the hills of the 

 South-west of the Island, ranging from perhaps the 

 Eastern side of the Morowa Korle through the " Lion 

 King" and other forests bordering the Gindurah, and 

 from thence through the extensive jungles of the Gange- 

 bodde pattoo to the Kottowe district where I first met 

 with it. Should these limits prove to be correct, the 

 habitat of this little bird is exceedingly confined and 

 has no parallel in Ceylon with the exception perhaps, of 

 c the White°fronted Starling, (Temenuchus SenexJ which has 

 (Only been found as yet, in the forest along the upper part 

 of the Gindurah, iindeed;in just the same locality as the- 

 subject of this note. 



This Flower-pecker dwells exclusively in the high 

 jungle or " Mookalaney" of the ^Sinhalese, and effects the 

 leaves and smaller branches of moderately sized trees, but 



