Colonel Legge writes in his 'Birds of Ceylon':-"In the Western Province this Babbler commences to breed in February; but in May I found several nests in the Uva district near Fort Macdonald; and that month would thus seem to be the nesting-season in the Central Province.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
The original fruit occurred of the hairy sort, like Esau, as the Uva crispa of Fuschius, in Henry the Eighth's reign; and there are now red, white, and yellow cultivated varieties of the berry.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie