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omitted ; vide Holdsworth, Catalogue Ceylon birds, P. Z. S., 

 1872, No. 106, as to female. 



Found throughout all the low-country, and extending into the 

 Central Province and southern hills to an elevation of 3,000 feet; 

 rare in the Western Province, where it appears confined to certain 

 districts; common in the south-west up the valleys of the Gin- 

 durah and its tributaries, plentiful on the south-east coast, ahundanfc 

 in the bushy lands surrounding some of the salt lakes of the 

 north-east, and, according to Holds worth, very common in the 

 north-west (Aripu.) 



Aote.~ My experience of the plumage of the female of this bird 

 accords with that of Mr. Holdsworth, he. cit. I have never 

 obtained or seen a single example with the black head and 

 neck. 



54. Guaucalus Layardi, Blyth. — The large Southern 

 Cuckoo. Campephaga Macei, Lessen. — Layard, Annals Natural 

 History, lh54, page 128; Graucalus Pussellus, Blyth. 



A rare bird in Ceyion; Layard mentions it as found in the Southern 

 Province, Annals Natural History (foe, cit.), but I have never 

 yet met with it here. It occurs in the Western Province between 

 Colombo and liatnapura, and is likewise procured now and then 

 in Dumbara. 



55. Pericrocotus Flammeus, Forster. — The Scarlet 

 Minnivet. " Fly-catcher" of Europeans. " bultan" of Coffee 

 planters. — Layard, Annals Natural History, 1854, volume 13, 

 page 127 ; Kelaart, Prodromus Faunae Zeylanioa, page ?23. 



Widely distributed, inhabiting the hills in numbers and descending 

 into the low- country in some parts, though not occurring near 

 the sea. Abundant in the Knuckles and Pussellawa districts, 

 affecting mostly the high jungle in ** mukalana," and very numer- 

 ous in all the fine Southern forests. Hoidsworth says it is 

 abundant at IS uwara Eliya 5 where however Kelaart did not seem 

 to have observed it. I have not met with it nearer Colombo 

 than the small tract of forest at Pore, where the Trogon is also 

 common. It is found in the north-eastern forests. 



56. Pericrocotus Peregrinus,2>'/w. — The little Minnivet. 

 Layard, Annals Natural History, 1854, volume 13, page 1^7; 

 Kelaart, Prodromus Faunas Zeylanica. page 123. 



Common throughout the Island from the maritime districts up to 

 3, >C0 feet, according to my observation, and extending in the 

 north-east monsoon up to M uwara Eliya, where Holdsworth found 

 it plentiful, and from where it is recorded in Kelaart's list, loc. cit. 

 It is common at all seasons in the Galle district, and I have met 

 with it in the Fort at Jaffna, 



