204 Lettei's, Announcements, t^c. 



description tallies very well with my specimens, which were 

 procured in forest in the north and west of the island ; but he 

 makes no mention whatever of the very delicate yellow legs 

 and feet, which are the chief characteristics of the bird ; nor 

 does he speak of the white spot on the lores, nor the con- 

 spicuously dark patch on the lower part of the face, contrast- 

 ing with the rather narrowly confined white of the throat. 

 Notwithstanding, the description, short as it is, comes too 

 close to my birds to permit of my considering them as be- 

 longing to another species. Alseonax ferrugineus differs from 

 the Ceylon bird in the much deeper rufous of the rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and margins of the wing-coverts, but more par- 

 ticularly in the rufescent hue of the lower parts, including 

 the under tail- coverts, these being white in the insular form. 



LOCUSTELLA CERTHIOLA, PallaS. 



Locustella certhiola, Jerdon, B. of India, vol. ii. p. 159. 



This Grasshopper- Warbler must be added to the Ceylonese 

 avifauna. It is found in certain swamps of the western pro- 

 vince, and was procured by me in February last year. 



Tringa pugnax. 



The Ruff is another addition to our list, a young male 



having been shot last March by Capt. H. Wade, 57th Regt., 



near Kirinde, on the S.E. coast. 



I am, yours &c., 



March 4th, 1878. W. V. Legge. 



233 Beacon Street, Boston. 

 March 3rd, 1878. 



SiRs^ — The Parula recently obtained by Dr. Merrill on 

 our southern frontier, and supposed by him to be only the 

 commom P. americana, is not, in the opinion of Dr. Cones, 

 P. pitiayumi, but a new species, for which he proposes the 

 name of P. nigrilora. 



Neocorys spraguei has been taken by Mr. Geo. B. Sennett 

 near Galveston, 



Besides these acquisitions, new to our fauna, Mr. Sennett 

 and Dr. Merrill have taken a number of specimens of the 

 Dove LeptotUa alhifrons, Bp. It was first shot by Mr. Sen- 



