 The climate is essentially tropical and a larger part of rainfall is during the southwest monsoon (June – August).The natural vegetation of the Central Indian Highlands is dominated by the peninsular sal ("Shorea robusta") forests in the east and teak ("Tectona grandis") forests in the west.Birdlife in Central Indian Highlands is generally not so rich as either Eastern Himalayas or the Western Ghats although they have been suggested to have acted as an important dispersal highway in the historical past for the Indo-Malayan elements from the Eastern Himalayas to Western Ghats and Sri Lanka (Ali, 1949).