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ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, (CEYLON BRANCH.) 



History, 1853, page 263. Omitted from Kelaart's list. 



Migratory, appearing in September, and leaving in the latter part 

 of April. It affects the tops of high trees in the forests of the 

 Central Province, and in the jungle bordering the patana streams ; 

 the same in the southern and north-eastern parts of the Island ; 

 and affects pieces of detached jungle where the timber is large 

 in the low-country of the south-west. It is met with near 

 Colombo, about Pore, Hanwella, Bope, and such parts as are wild 

 and uncultivated. 



92. Calobates sulphurea, Beck st. — The Grey and Yel- 

 low Wagtail, the Grey Wagtail, Motacilla boarula, Linn. — 

 Layard, Annals Natural History, 1853, page 268 ; Kelaart, Pro- 

 dromus Faunae Zeylanica, page 121. 



Migratory, as are all the Wagtails, arriving in September and leaving 

 in May. I have found it in the Western, Central, and Southern 

 Provinces ; it remains about the coast for the first three weeks, 

 during which time I have often seen it on the rocks of the sea 

 shore, and then ascends to the hills, where it is found on every 

 stream up to 6,000 feet. Mr. Holdsworth procured it at Nuwara 

 Eliya ; it is scarcely ever seen about streams at intermediate 

 heights under 2,000 feet. 



93. Limonidromus Indicus, Gmelin. -The Indian Wood 

 Wagtail. Gomarita, Sink. — Nemorieola, Dlyth. ; Motacilla indica, 

 Gmelin. — L ay a r d , Annals Natural History, 1853, volume 12, page 

 268; Kelaart, Proclromus Faunae Zeylanica, page 121. 



Migratory to the Northern, North-Eastern, and Western Provinces; 

 common in the jungles from Dambulla to Trincomalee and especially 

 numerous in the vicinity of the latter and along the Anuradhapura 

 road, affecting alike jungle paths and roads through the forest and 

 open glades; very rare in the Western Province, having once or 

 twice been procured near Colombo, and occurs no doubt in the 

 jungles of the northern part of the Seven Korales. 



Note. — This is, without any exception, in my opinion, the most 

 charming of our birds. Fearless and most inquisitive in its dis- 

 position, it is the constant companion of the naturalist in his 

 wanderings through the lonely jungles of the Northern Province, 

 exhibiting on all occasions the most familiar and confiding 

 character ; often when I have been resting in some silent spot, 

 the branches of the trees forming a thick canopy overhead and the 

 open ground beneath strewed with dead leaves, this little denizen 

 of the woods has come to within a couple of yards of me, busily 

 searching about, running to and fro, and ever and anon " balanc- 

 ing" its elegant little body in the peculiar manner common to all 

 its genus, and after surveying me for a moment with the quietest 



