DISTRIBUTION OF BIRDS IN CEYLON. 19 
Of our two species of Glaucidium, G. castanonotum—the 
Chestnut-backed Owlet—is peculiar to the Island. Its 
nearest relative, G. radiatum—the Jungle Owlet—is found, 
like the last species, in the Kandyan forests, but it is also 
common throughout the Malabar coast. The genus is rare 
or wanting in the Carnatic. 
The Hawks—Accipitres—are, in general, birds of powerful 
flight, and therefore, as might be expected, birds of wide 
range. 
Many, indeed, are migrants or mere occasional stragglers to 
the Island. 
Among the order there is one curious gapinourfauna. Only 
once has a specimen of a Vulture—Neophron ginginianus— 
been recorded from Ceylon. That specimen, a young bird, 
was obtained at Nuwara Eliya in 1879. 
It will be necessary to note only a few species. IJctinetus 
malayensis—the Black Eagle—is mainly a Himalayan and 
Malayan species wauting in the districts south of the Ganges, 
except in the Malabar and Ceylon hills. With us it occasion- 
ally wanders into the low-country. 
Spizetus kelaarti—Legge’s Hawk Eagle—was long thought 
to be peculiar to Ceylon, but it has now been found in 
the Travancore hills. Milvas govinda—the Pariah Kite—a 
widely-spread species in India, for some reason or otber in 
Ceylon confines itself to the northern scrub jungle tract, its 
place elsewhere in the low-country being taken by Haliastur 
indus—the Brahminy Kite—an equally common Indian bird. 
Two rare Kites are Baza lophotes—the Black-crested Baza— 
and B. ceylonensis—-Legge’s Baza. The genus is represented 
north of the Ganges, but south of that river it occurs piactically 
orly in the Malabar tract and Ceylon. B. lophotes is with us 
only a rare migrant from the Himalayas or Malay Peninsula, 
while B. ceylonensis has been obtained several times in the 
Kandyan hills, and once in the Wynaad. 
The Doves—Columbe—found in Ceylon number twelve 
species, divided among eight genera, but two of these genera— 
Crocopus and Ainopopelia—are represented solely by one or 
two recorded specimens of Crocopus chlorogaster—the Southern 
Green Pigeon—and Anopopelia tranquebarica—the Red 
