Mr. E. L. Layard on the Ornithology of Ceylon. 97 



continue, breviter adnato, recto, simplice, ^^uto : operculo tenvu, 

 corn?o arete spirato, medio concaviusculo. intus obtuse uxnbouah. 

 Diam maior 13, minor 10, alt. 5 mill. _ ^ 

 Hab ad Damboul, ad verticem rupis, in rimis saxorum. 



It differs from C. loxostoma, Pfeiffer (a large and handsomely 

 inaxled variety of which was found on the same rock), m colour- 

 r«^ epidermis! depth of suture, narrower and deeper umbdicus, 

 a°fd the more cir^cular and vertical aperture, which exhxbi^ 

 nothin.- of the diagonal departure from the a^s observable in 

 PfSs shell. The peristome also is acute and single instead 

 of b!Sg double, slighti; expanded and thickene^ as m that^^^^^ 

 ries of which Mr. Layard's specimen is variegated with raaiate 

 and undulated chestnut stripes, and with a smgle band on a 

 fulvous ground. 



London, June 1853. 



X^Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an 

 eight year^ residence in the Island. By Edgar Leopold 

 Layard, C.C.S. 



To the Editors of the Annah of Natural History . 



Gentlemen, . 

 Should vou deem the accompanying notes on the birds of Cey- 

 lon worhfof a place in your Journal, they are at your disposal 

 Xltei myself that the'y.will be found to cont-; complete 

 \W\ of those birds as yet discovered m Ceylon. 1 have had tne 

 atantatof consulting with Mr. Blyth and Drs. Templeton and 

 kelaart, with each of whom I have been on terms of the closest 

 kit macV and we mutually communicated our discoveries I 

 ha fn^'self seen and shot Lst of the birds enumerated, mthei 

 native haunts, for whether walkmg, d^mng or ridmg I always 

 carried my telescope and collecting gun, and I have thus tra- 

 versed the greater part of the island. Besides travellmg I have 

 bSn some 'years st'ationed in the widely -paratf lo^h^^^^^^^^^ 



Colombo, and Pt. Pedro m the ^e^g^^«^^^«f^;[^,JX forTe 

 which places I made frequent excursions into the jungle, tor the 

 purpose of collecting and observing the habits of birds and an - 

 mals The only parts I have left unvisited are Nuwera Elia 

 and Batticaloa a'nd^heir vicinities. In the omer f ce D^^^^^^ 

 laart long resided and carefully investigated, as ^i%^^^t/^«'^^'- 

 Frl Balicaloa I have inspected small -1 Actions ^^^^^^ 

 the only part of Ceylon entirely unknown to eithei ot us three 

 is the Park country! which I had hoped to explore, but was pre- 



