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near Kandy, (Holdsworth, Catalogue Ceylon Birds.) I have not 

 met with it either in the south-western hills or in the low-country 

 of that part ; but it probably occurs on the south-east coast in 

 the jungles there. It occurs rarely in all these localities. Also 

 found as near Colombo as Kotte, and has been procured in several 

 places in the Hewagam Korale* and in the Kurun^gala district. 

 All examples that have been brought to me, or that I have myself 

 shot, have occurred in the north-east monsoon. If it is resident 

 in Ceylon, which I doubt, it is most probably migratory from the 

 eastern side during that season. 



44 bis. Coccystes Jacobinus, Bodd. — The Crested Cuckoo. 

 Oxylophus Serratus, Spars. — Kelaart, Prodromus Faunse Zey- 

 lanica, page 128. Oxylophus Melanoleucos, Gmelin. — Layard, 

 Annals Natural History, 1854, page 451. 



Abundant in the north and south-east, where the country is covered 

 with low jungle ; sparingly distributed through the low-country 

 of the south-west ; occurs in the Trincomalee district in the north- 

 east monsoon; it is decidedly migratory to the south-west during 

 that season. It extends into the hills, being found in Dumbara. 



4*L Eudynamis Honorata, Li?m.— The Koel: Koha,Kavadi- 

 koha, Sinh. Eudynamis Orientalis, Linn. — Layard, Annals 

 Natural History, 1854, page 451; Kelaart, Prodromus Fauna? 

 Zeylanica, page 129. 



Very numerous in the south-west, where it is resident all the year 

 round; common in the Hambantota and Trincomalee districts 

 during the north-east monsoon; tolerably plentiful in the Western 

 Province, where I have procured it in the south-west monsoon not 

 far from Colombo. I am not aware that this species extends to 

 any considerable elevation into the hills. 



Note. — Holdsworth says (Catalogue Ceylon Birds, No, 88) that 

 he never met with this bird after April, and that he believes it to 

 be "a true migratory bird." This, as it appears from the above 

 distribution, is erroneous. I have shot it in the Galle district at 

 the end of June, and seen it during the whole of the south-west 

 monsoon. It is possible that it may, like some few of our birds, 

 notably DendrochelidonCoronatus and Tephrodorius Pondiceriana, 

 migrate from the south to the north of the Island at certain seasons, 



46. Phcenicoph^eus Pyrrhocephalus, Forster.—The red- 

 faced Malkoha. Mai Kendetta, Sinh. 



This rare and beautiful bird I have discovered lately to have a much 

 more extended range in Ceylon than has hitherto been supposed. 

 It inhabits the high tree jungles and forests situated some distance 



