with In some forests near Kumbaruwella, about P.d miles from Batticaloa, and 
also in the Friar’s Hood forest, but thenoe through a wide expanse of forest 
country to the foot of the Madulslma range, it does not seem to be found. 
I observe that Layard is of opinion that it did not frequent the low coun¬ 
try of the western Province in his day, but that it has spread outwards of 
late years. I think, however, the above distribution will demonstrate to 
anyone knowing the interior of Ceylon that its range is very peculiar, some 
districts coming in for a share of its patronage, while others adjacent to 
them are altogether passed over. 
HABITS 
The voice of this bird is one of the chief ornithological characteristics 
of the Ceylon hills; the notes which constitute it have somewhat tne charac¬ 
ter of those of the larger bird, but differ chiefly in the "roll" with which 
they begin; they are commenced early in the morning, and continued for many 
hours, until tne persistent barbet, judging by the tone of his cries, becomes 
hoarse, and then there is a cessation much to the relief of the wearied plan¬ 
ter over whose bungalow the ’shouter" has perhaps been calling to his mates 
away up at the forest’s margin for the past hour. Mr Blign tells me that 
he observes a very perceptible decrease in this bird’s loquacity as soon as 
it has begun to breed, although, of course, it has been more than usually 
noisy during the season of courtship. It delights in perching on the top 
of a tree growing at the brink of some dizzy precipice, from which its note 
swells far and wide over the beautiful coffee planted gorge beneath; but 
still more curious is the manner in which the monosyllabic sounds quiok, 
quick, ascends audibly from the edge of the patinas far beneath tne oungalo^ 
and falls on the ear as distinctly as If it were issuing from a tcee close 
at hand. 
In the low country it is found chiefly in forests, but sometimes aoout 
paddy field woods, as at Mahara, Kaduwella, Ambepusse, and other places; in 
the timber jungles bf the South-west It Is next to impossible to procure, as 
it keeps to the top of the highest Kenar or Hora trees, and would never be 
discovered were It not for its perpetual shouting. It Is a gluttonous fee¬ 
der, collecting in dozens among the branches of any tree in fruit, climbing 
Intently about, and wrenching off the berries with its powerful bill, at tne 
same time letting much fall to the ground. In the singha Rajah forests I 
found it feeding greedily on the berry of the Dang tree(Syzyglurn Caryophyl- 
loeum). Towards evening, after digesting its morning food, the Yellow ' 
Fronted Barbet begins its clamour again, and after feeding becomes silent 
