383 Lieut. W. V. Leggc on the Birds of the 



24. Ceryle rudis (Linn.). 



Affects the leways along the coast. I did not observe many 

 along the shaded rivers of the interior ; it is a bird which 

 always affects exposed situations. 



2.5. Hydrocissa coronata (Bodd.). 



Our large Hornbill I met with about the tanks, where 

 there is forest, in the Kaltsegama district, and along the rivers 

 of the interior. 



26. Toccus GiNGALENSis'^ (Sliaw) . 



The Hornbill is abundant along the Hambantotta and Ba- 

 dulla road, commencing at a point some fifteen miles north of 

 the former place. I met with it always in the forest on the 

 river-banks throughout the Wellaway Korle. What appear 

 to be birds of the year, although in two instances the ova were 

 well developed, are smaller than adults, and have the bill al- 

 most wholly brown. The amount of white in this organ varies 

 with age, from a streak on the side to the almost white bill, 

 with dark patch just anterior to the eye, and dark wash at the 

 base beneath, of old birds. The white markings of the pri- 

 maries and rectrices are irregular during immaturity; in one 

 example before me, the fifth quill of one wing is almost en- 

 tirely white, save a black patch adjacent to the normal white 

 tip, while on the corresponding feather of the other wing there 

 is a white line down the centre of the black inner web. Five 

 adult examples measure in the wing 8'25 inches, and in the 

 bill, from gape straight to tip, 3" 5. 



27. PaljEornis torquatus (Bodd.). 



28. Pal^eornis EUPATRius (Linn.). 



29. PaL^ORNIS ROSA. 



P. torquatus is abundant in the scrubs of the coast-district ; 

 and P. eupatrius and P. rosa I met with on the BaduUa road 

 and on the banks of the Kirinde Ganga. I think it is now 



* The Hornbill of the south-western forests may perhaps be distinct j but 

 a large series must be got together before the question can be decided. 

 It is an extremely shy bird, only one example falling to my gun in two 

 years' collecting. It has the bill half an inch longer, more curved and 

 pointed, and more notched than this form. 



