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margin of the inner web ; " iris brownish red, dull red, or reddish 

 brown ; orbital skin and eyelid dull blue ; bill gamboge-yellow, 

 more or less blackish from the forehead to a short distance in front 

 of the nostril ; legs and feet plumbeous or greenish plumbeous ; feet 

 generally more bluish than tarsi ; claws dusky, pale horn at base " 

 (IF. V. Li'iigi'). Total length 8 inches, cijmen 1-1, wing 3"5, 

 tail 3-G, tarsus 1-2. 



Yomuj. A bird in nest plumage, shot at Nuwara EUiya, is very 

 ferrugiuous above, and likewise on the sides of the chest and flanks ; 

 the head and ear-coverts are not so black as in the adult ; and the 

 white of the chest is very much contracted, and does not extend so 

 far down on the breast. The bill is much straighter tlian in the 

 adult. 



The sexes are alike in plumage, according to Captain Lcgge, who 

 states, however, that the bill varies in length and curvature accord- 

 ing to age. Captain Wardlaw Kamsay, in his paper on the present 

 genus, published in the 'Ibis" for 1878, calls attention to the dif- 

 ference in colour which is shown by specimens of the pi'esent species ; 

 and on looking over his series, as well as that in the collection of 

 the Eriti.sh Museum, it would seem that two races, one olivaceous 

 in tint and the other rust j--coloured, can be distinguished; but 

 Captain Lcgge enters fullj' into this subject in his book on the 

 Birds of Ceylon, and finds " that a gradation from the plumage of 

 the most ferruginous birds, which come from the damp districts of 

 the south, where moist climate and heat are combined, to that of 

 hill birds from the upper zone is verj' perfect, a complete sequence 

 being obtainable on going up " through the wilderness of the Peak 

 from the low-lying portion of 8afiragam to the Horton plains."' His 

 remarks on this subject are well worthy of perusal. 



Hull. Peculiar to Ceylon, where it is distributed throughout the 

 central and southern bills. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Ceylon. Hugh Cuming, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Cevlon. E. L. Lavard, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Ceyluu. Dr. Kelaart [P.]. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Nuwara Eliya. Mr. E. Boate [C.]. 



g. J ad. sk. Pusiwella, Dec. 19, 1865 Marquis of Tweeddale [P.J 



(Chapman), 



h. Ad. sk. Ceylon (Laurie). Capt. Vincent Le^^e [P. 



i. 2 ad. sk. Buddyamma, Dec. 12,1871. Capt. Vincent Legge [P.' 



h. S ad. sk. Saffragam, Aug. 19, 1876. Capt. \'iucent Legge [P.' 



/. (S ad. sk. Bandarawella,Mayl8,1876. Capt. Vincent Legge fP." 



m. 2 ad. sk. South Ceylon,June 29, 1872. Capt. Vincent Legge [P.'. 



5. Pomatorhinus horsfieldii. 



Pomatorhinus horsfieldi, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 89 ; id. J. A. S. Beny. 

 iii. p. 5a7 (18:34) ; Jcrd. Madr. Joum. x. p. 25G (1839) ; Blyth, J. 

 A. S. Beng. xi. p. 175 (1842), xii. p. 946 (1843) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 229 (1846): Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 146 (1849); £p. 

 Consp. i. p. 220 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. llein. Th. i. p. 84 (1850) ; Horsf. 

 Sf Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. ji. 234 (18C4) : Jerd. B. Ltd. li. 



