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... - 1 .w. ■ fn,mcl in all the elevated forests in the south. I observe that it is not recoided 
It IS singular that it i^^ ^ot found in a ^ 
from the Travancore lulls, though Mr 1 a y ^ ^ frontier beyond the Saiiibhur Lake, where 
lower down/’ It does not seem to extend towards / ,ig,,ed throughout the sub- 
Mr. Adam remarks that it is very rare^ lurm Tcnasserim, in which 
Himalayan region, breeding up to 7000 teet, a , j ...^y down the Malayan peninsula to 
latter province Mr. Hume says it is found sparingly, extending J returning again to the continent 
Singapore island. Further south than this it is found m J ava and Borneo , and leturnin, ag 
we find Swinhoe recording it from the Szechuen Province. wivcatcher was first made known 
In common with not a few other widely-distributed species, us x„j,.;ons ’ and called by him the 
from Ceylon, the specimen figured by Swainson in his ‘Zoologiea lUustra ions and J 
Ceylonese Flatbill, having been sent to him by that diligent naturalist Governoi Loten. 
Habits.— Th.\s is a charmingly tame and fearless little bird, trees, the 
teristic sounds of the cool up-country forests of Ceylon. It frequen s e ^ ^ 
edges of clearings in the jungle, patna-woods, &c., and is particularly fond of trees ,, 
on'the borders mountain-streams. It is exceedingly active, and for the Part bves in ear^y^^ 
its insect- trapping vocation in perfect disregard to any thing going on arou . accomnanies its occu- 
.u m.ect and alight on a fallen log or lo, atump aithin a few feet of a J‘ ““,Xra» ,.p iB 
pations by the ciercise of its vocal powe.a, frequently giving vent to its cheeitul n , 1 P 
prey wi/an audible sound of its mandibles. The whistle of thejnale is a n^ore 
bird of such small site, and resembles the syllables ul-Uu-wheee, “ ' and” keep up a constant 
repeated. Birds of the year congregate in little troops unaceonipmiied by adults, keep up 
twittering note frequent sallies after 
Jerdon writes of its habits as touows . fluunp. about a ffood deal, though it usually 
small insects, and not always returning to the same perch, but flitting about gooc 
remains in the same tree or clump of trees for some time. ; 
bare not had the good 
present species in Ceylon; but on consulting ^ . +v,p mouths of April May, and June, and 
birds, we find that in India the Grey-headed Flycatcher lays during the rock or 
constructs its nest, according to Indian observers, amidst c growing moss-roots or with 
old trunk of a tree ; it is composed of moss, cobwebs, and lichens, 
fine grass-stalks. Thenests resemble little watch-poekets o moss, ® ™ , are very difficult to discover. 
by about 2 inches in depth, and, fixed as they are hunch of mosses fastened to the tree with 
Capt. Hutton speaks of one which had depended beneat i a on^, number of eggs is usually 
spiders’ webs, and serving as a support or cushion on winch the^nest res^ed^^^^^^ 
four ; Mr. Hume describes them as moderately bioa c , , f ond blotches towards the 
are dingy yellowish white, and they have a broad ^ "rbr™^^ ^ 
large end, the colour of which is a mottled combination o in^ } almost glosslcss, and 
the rest of the egg is more or less thickly spotted with very pale dingy brown. Ihey are almos , 
average 0'62 inch in length by 0'48 inch in breadth. 
