446 Mr. E. L. Layard on the Ornithology of Ceylon. 



iieath similar bodies in a younger and less developed state and 

 of a greenish-yellow colour. 



Spiloma auratunij Turn. & Borr. Lich. Brit. 33 ! ; E. Bot. 

 t. 2078 ; Hook. Br. Fl. 2. 165. 



The pulvinuli consisted of masses of irregular rounded gra- 

 nules heaped together without order or arrangement, darker or 

 brownish on the exterior, of a full yellow internally, and appa- 

 rently breaking up into very minute granules. I could not 

 detect any pedicels. 



Spiloma nigrum and its varieties ff. S^ y, Turn. & Borr. Lich. 

 Brit. 35 ! ; E. Bot. t. 2076 & 2077 ; Hook. Br. Fl. 2. 166. 



The pulvinuli here also were formed of roundish black gra- 

 nules. 



Spiloma fuliffinosum, Turn. & Borr. Lich. Brit. 37 ! ; E. Bot. 

 t. 2150; Hook. Br. Fl. 2. 166. 



Similar to the last, but the pulvinuli confluent and scattered. 



Spiloma decolor ans, Turn. & Borr. Lich. Brit. 39 ! ; E. Bot. 

 t.2399; Hook. Br. Fl. 2. 166. 



The sorediate or variolariose state of some thallus. 



Spiloma punctatum, Turn. & Borr. Lich. Brit. 40 ! ; E. Bot. 

 t. 2472 ; Hook. Br. Fl. 2. 166. -'' "^^'« 



A section of the apothecia shows them to be composed or a 

 dark brown or blackish perithecium enclosing a pale transparent 

 nucleus, whose upper surface is covered with a dark brown layer. 

 No traces of asci or sporidia. Most probably the young or 

 punctiform state of some Opegrapha. 



Spiloma tuberculosum, Hook. Br. Fl. 2. 167; E. Bot. t. 2556. 

 Something old, imperfect and in decay. 



XLI. — Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon^ collected during an 

 eight years' residence in the Island. By Edgar Leopold 

 Layard, F.Z.S., C.M.E.S. &c. 



[Continued from p. 264.] 



1 79. Megalaima caniceps, Frank. 



Syn. Bucco Zeylanicus ? (Linn.). 



Kotoorooal, Cing. Kotoor, Mai. 



One of our commonest species and universally distributed. It 

 feeds on fruits and berries of all kinds, which it swallows entire ; 

 it does not, that I know of, devour small birds when in a state 



