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It affects, according to Jerdon, the depths of the forest ; but Mr. Bourdillon affirms that it is found “ on the margin 
o heavy jungle, but most abundantly in the secondary growth on land which has once been occupied by the hill-men.” 
0 flight is rapid and elegant, and it associates in small flocks ; its cry is mellow, subdued, and 
agreeable, and it feeds chiefly on fruits of various kinds.” It breeds in January and February in the natural cavity of a 
tree, laving from two to four eggs, of a glossy white colour. 
Page 180 .—Loriculus indicus. My readers must note that the figure of the adult on the Plate facing the article on 
Pal. calthropce is drawn to a f scale, while that of the young bird on the Plate facing the article oil Xantholcema rubri- 
capilla is life-size. 
Page 1 84. Ficus mahrattensis. This species, writes Mr. Parker, is very common in the Manaar district, breeding 
m trees, in which it makes a hole about 2i inches in diameter. The nesting-season is in May. 
Page 186.— Yungipicus gymnophthalmus. The same valuable correspondent sends me the following interesting note 
from the Manaar district on this little Woodpecker. Speaking of the nest, which he found on the 8th of April of the 
present year, he says “it was situated in a dead tree on the side of a paddy-field; but the tree was so rotten and the 
branch so weak that I could not obtain the eggs : the hole seemed about 1 inch in diameter and of an elliptical shape, 
the branch being, at this place, about 3 inches in diameter and slightly sloping, the nest being on the underside. I 
should not have observed it but for the cries of a Eed-fronted Barbet, which probably had a nest in the same tree. The 
Barbet was perched on the top of one of the higher branches, and was screaming in a most peculiar manner. For a long 
time I could not discern what was the cause; but at last I noticed the little Woodpecker very slowly, but yet in a wav 
that showed ho ‘ meant business,’ edging herself sideways towards the other miserable bird. After taking a step or 
two she stopped to tap the branch, and as she approached the Barbet this tapping was quite as loud as of one of the 
larger Woodpeckers. I was in hopes I should see another battle-royal, like that between the two Brachypternusceylonus” 
(see p. 204); “but when only a few inches separated the duellists the Barbet’s little remaining courage gave way and 
she flew off to another tree. The Woodpecker immediately followed, alighting about a couple of feet below, and at once 
began quietly to sidle towards the objectionable intruder, pretending all the time to be busily seeking for food, till the 
Barbet finally flew off.” This anecdote is very interesting, as showing the methodical, yet plucky, nature of this pigmv 
among Woodpeckers. r j 
Page 191. Chrysocolciptes festivus.' I have received a very fine example of this handsome Woodpecker from 
Mr. Parker. It is from the N.W . Province, and is quite as fine a bird as most Indian specimens. 
Page 197. Olirysophlegma xanthoderus. Mr. Hume points out (Str. Feath. 1878, p. 517) that Jerdon’s name Picas 
chlongaster has a few months’ precedence of Malherbe’s, as the number of the ‘ Eevue Zoologique’ in which the latter 
name was published did not issue until the end of 1845, whereas No. 31 of the ‘ Madras Journal ’ appeared in February 
or that year. I had overlooked the precise date, as regards month, in which the number in question of the * Eevue 
oo ogique appeared; and as Malherbe’s title (as a MSS. one) dated from the preceding year, 1844, 1 took it in preference 
to Jerdon s. The proper name of this Woodpecker is, therefore, Chrysophlegma chlojrigaster. 
Prior to my use of Malherbe’s name xanthoderus, this Woodpecker was known in all Indian writings by the erroneous 
title ot O. chlorophanes. 
Page 200. Micropternus gularis. This Woodpecker makes its nest in the interior of the pendent nest of the black 
ant. After devouring all the inhabitants it hollows out the interior, which serves as the receptacle for its eggs. Mr. Parker 
writes me of one about which there were numbers of ants still unconsumed when he first found it, but°the last time the 
bird flew out they had all disappeared. He was, at the time of writing, awaiting the laying of the eggs. 
Page 202 . — Brachypternus ceylonus. Last year Mr. Parker kindly brought home two eggs of this species which I 
intended to have figured in my Plate, but they unfortunately were destroyed by a pet dog. They were glossy white and 
broad ovals in shape. One specimen measured 1-16 by 0-85 inch. A second nest, found in the N.W. Province on the 
30th December last, was in a small dead tree about 18 feet from the ground ; the hole was 2J by 3 inches, a vertical ellipse 
leading into the middle of the trunk and then down a foot. There were two eggs, “ rather pointed at the small end but 
not quite similar in shape, one being more elliptical than the other.” 
Page 205. Brachypternus puncticollis. Mr. Parker informs me that he has seen yellow-backed and orange-backed 
W oodpeckers on the Manaar and Madewatchiya road, twenty-three miles from the sea ; they were not in company, and 
he is inclined to think the orange-backed bird (B. intermedius, nobis) is a good species. I never met with the yellow- 
