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76. Hypsipetes Ganeesa, Sykes. — The Cinereous Bulbul ; 

 The Neil cherry Bulbul ; Hypsipetes, Neilgherrienses, Jerdan ; 

 vide Holdsworth, Catalogue Ceylon Birds P.Z.S., 1872, No. 144; 

 Kelaart, Prodromus Faunae Zeylanica, page 123 ; Layard, Annals 

 JSatural History, 1854, page 125. 



Western, Central, and Southern Provinces. More abundant in the 

 latter than elsewhere, frequenting the Morowak Korale, Kukulu 

 Korale, Upper Gindurah, U dug am a, and Kotuwa forests in vast 

 numbers. It is perhaps more numerous in the latter low hiil- 

 forest ten miles from Galle than in the other parts ; affects the 

 chena-covered hills between that place and the sea and those on 

 the banks of the Lower Gindurah, above Baddegama. Common 

 in the low hill-jungles of the Western Province arid in the Central 

 Province on wooded patanas. Holdsworth found it at Nuwara 

 Eliya in February, and Kelaart has it in his list from that place. 



77. Criniger Ictericus, Strickland.— -The yellow Forest 

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

 page 124. 



Abundant in many parts of the Island : throughout the Central Pro- 

 vince to an elevation of 3,500 feet, in all the coffee districts, and 

 in all parts of the low-country where there is forest. In the west 

 it is found in all the forests of the Hewagam and Ravi gam • 

 Korales, in the south-west in the " mukalana" of Kottowe (ten 

 miles from Galle), Udugama, Opata, and in all the high-tree 

 jungle of the Hinidum Pattu and Kukulu and Morowak Korales. 

 It is more abundant at the medium altitudes of the above southern 

 fcrests than elsewhere in the Island. In the north-east it is 

 common in the district between Trincomalee and the Central 

 road, and, as regards the south-east, it frequents the luxuriant 

 parts along the Kirinde Ganga, and other rivers. This species 

 together with Harpactes fasciatus, Dissemurus lophorhinus, 

 Brachyptenus Stricklandi, and one or two others, is exclusively 

 confined to forests. 



78. Txos Luteolus, Lessen* — The White Bulbul, " Cinna- 

 mon Thrush" of Europeans. Pycnonotus flavi rictus, Strickland. — 

 Layard, Annals Natural History, 1853, pape 128; Kelaart, Pro- 

 dromus Faunas Zeylanica, page 123. 



Western, Northern, Southern, and Central Provinces up to 4,500 

 feet. Very abundant throughout all the low-country, particularly 

 in the neighbourhoods of Colombo, Galle, Hambantota, and Trin- 

 comalee, and (according to Holdsworth) Aripu, It is common at 

 all elevations up to that abovenamed, but decreases in numbers 

 as it ascends. 



