350 Mr. F. Lewis on the Land-birds of 



46. Centropus chlororhynchus (Legge, B. of C. p. 263, 

 pi. xiii.). 



Indigenous. I have met with it only in the country 

 extending from the northward base of the Rakwana hills 

 towards the Wallawey river, and again on the northern 

 confines of the Kegalla district in the valley of the Maha 

 Oya. I notice that Legge records it from the Ratnapura side 

 of the Peak range, but though I resided there for several years 

 I did not observe it. 



47. Harpactes fasciatus (Legge, B. of C. p. 269). 



A bird with a very wide distribution in the Sabaragamuwa 

 Province. I have found it in dense, gloomy, wet forests in 

 the wilderness of the Peak, in the cold hill-forests near the 

 Horton Plains, and again in the satinwood forests of the 

 dry zone to the south and east. In the wet country on the 

 borders of the Western Province it becomes fairly common, 

 but cannot be regarded as plentiful anywhere. 



I am indebted to my friend Mr. Simmons, of the Public 

 Works Department, for some information as to this bird^s 

 nidification. According to him, the nest was placed in a 

 hollow of a dead kittul palm {Caryota wens) ; the eggs were 

 mottled over with a number of richly- coloured spots, but 

 were unfortunately lost. 



I am inclined to believe that a second species of Trogon is 

 to be found in the South and S.E. of Ceylon, as on one 

 occasion when I was out plant-collecting I came upon a 

 most brilliantly-marked Harpactes with a vermilion breast, 

 with very bright chestnut upper surface, and less of the 

 blue colouring round the eyes and gape, and more like 

 Mr. Keulemans's beautiful figure of H. whiteheadi (Ibis, 

 1888, pi. xii.). I had a close view of the bird — it was on the 

 banks of the Kivinde river in the Southern-Province dry 

 zone — and I could clearly see that it was not our common 

 bird. 



48. Anthracocerus coronatus (Legge, B. of C. p. 272). 

 A strictly dry-zone bird. I have only found it up the 



valley of the Wallawey river in this province as far as 



