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north and west, are driven from those more exposed parts to the 

 other side of the Island, and return again with the influence of the 

 north-east monsoon. If this latter is the correct hypothesis, and 

 I am inclined to think it is, no migration takes places at all up 

 the west coast in the north-east monsoon from this district, those 

 parts being supplied only from the eastern side ; but I regret to 

 say my knowledge of what species frequent the Eastern Province 

 from May until October is not sufficient to enable me to arrive at 

 any definite conclusion in the matter. 



60. Dissemurus lophorhinus, VieiU. — The Ceylon crested 

 Drongo. " Kaputu baale" Sinhalese name for all the family. Di- 

 crurus Edolifornis, Ely th. — L ay ar d , Annals Natural History, 

 i 854, page 129; Kelaart, Prodromus Faunas Zeylanica, page 124, 



Exclusively confined to forests and has its head-quarters in the 

 south-west, where it is found in the " Mukalana" up all the lower 

 hills up to 3,000 feet or more in the Sinha Rajah ranges and 

 in the Morowak Korale; occurs also in the jungles of the Hewagam 

 and Kuruwiti K or ales. Layard procured it at Ambaganuiwa, but 

 I did not meet with it in the coffee districts of the Central 

 Province, and therefore I would put it down as one of the most 

 locally distributed birds we have. 



61. . Buchanga lecopygialis, Bhjth. — The Ceylon Drongo 

 " King Crow " of Europeans. 



Confined to the Western, Central, and Southern Provinces ; very 

 abundant all through the hilly country of the south-west, affecting 

 cultivated lands in the valleys, clearings, copses, &c. I found it 

 in one or two of the coffee districts at an elevation of 3,000 feet, 

 and I met with more examples in the Pupuressa district than 

 elsewhere to the south of Kandy. 



62- Myialestes Cinereo capilla, VieiU. — The grey-headed 

 Fly-catcher, Cryptolopha Cinereo cap ilia, VieiU, — Layard, 

 Annals Natural History, 1854, page 127; Kelaart, Prodromus 

 Fauna? Zeylanica, page 123, 



An inhabitant of the upper hills of Ceylon. I have failed to find this 

 Utile bird anywhere out of the Central Province, but in the higher 

 parts of the Morowak Korale, In India, Jerdon says that it 

 visits the plains in the cold weather, but however it must be looked 

 upon as strictly a hill species. It is abundant all through the 

 coffee districts down to about 3,500 feet, affecting especially the 

 edges of the forests above the estates. Holdsworth has it as very 

 common at.Nuwara Eliya. 



63. Leucocerca Aureola, Lesson— The White-fronted 

 Fan-tail. Leucocerca compressisostris, Blyth,— Layard, Annals 



