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“Birds of a feather”, (flock together) – By Des Kelly Still another beautiful English phrase. Yes, birds (of the feathered variety), do flock together, and where better in, than in “Ceylon, my Island of dreams”?, another original composition of this writer. This most interesting article on  “Endemic Bird-Life of Sri Lanka was forwarded to me, by a good friend, Maxwell Gerreyn, once again bringing back memories of our bird-watching days in Ceylon, as we knew it, in the magnificent “fifties”. Yes, Max & I did quite a lot of this pleasurable-pastime, watching “birds” of various-variety and, not always, the feathered kind.       Still, let me hasten to add that this superb article was written by Vimukthi Fernando & also features renowned Naturalist Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, but readers, please excuse the left-hand marginal errors of this article, because, technically perfect as our “writings” should be, unforseen errors such as ...