THE IBIS. 



THIRD SERIES. 



No. XIX. JULY 1875. 



XX. — On the Birds of the South-eastern Subdivision of 

 Southern Ceylon. By W. Vincent Legge^ Lieut. R.A. 



In the January number of ' The Ibis ' for last year, I gave 

 an outline of the distribution of the birds in the south-western 

 corner, or southern hill-region of Ceylon, which consists of a 

 maze of hills ranging from the sea-level up to an altitude of 

 4500 feet, and possessing the dampest climate in the island. 

 In these notes I gave evidence of the occurrence of birds not 

 previously recorded from that region, such as Syrnium in- 

 dranee, Toccus gingalensis, Chrysocolaptes stricklandi, Palceor- 

 nis calthrop^jPhcenicophaes pyrrhocepJialus* ,Eumyias sordida, 

 Merops quinticolor, Prionochilus vincens, Phyllornis malaba- 

 ricus, Dissemurus malabaricus, Drymocataphus fuscicapillus, 

 and many others. The limit of this subdivision was defined 

 to consist, towards the east, of the eastern slope of the hill- 

 region, which nins from the southernmost point of the island 

 due north, dividing this southern division into two halves : — 

 the one, that before under consideration ; the other, that now to 



* Layard does not specify the precise limits of this bird's range. Eni- 

 merson Tennant gives its habitat, ''confiiled to the southern highlands^ 

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