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Ardnaree Kandy – The story of a bungalow-By Anil Ellepola Ardnaree Kandy, as it was in 1915, Source:Sundaytimes ‘Ardnaree’ the official bungalow of the Principal of Dharmaraja College Kandy has had its share of distinguished residents and visitors over the years. When George Morrison Reid Henry, the ornithologist whose magnum opus was ‘A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon’ (OUP 1955), took over the post of acting Assistant Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture and moved to Peradeniya Botanical Gardens on June 28, 1915, he took up residence at Ardnaree Bungalow. In 1916   his sons Jim and Bob had attended Trinity College while living at Ardnaree. G.M. Henry says the hill on which Ardnaree was situated was clothed with a mixture of cocoa, coconut and areca palms, jak and breadfruit trees, Dadap and others, all rather neglected and forming a rich paradise for the birds characteristic of that kind of ...