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Galloperdix zeylonensis . 

 Galliis Stanleyi. 

 Perdix pondiceriana. 

 Perdicula argoondah. 

 Cotumix chinensis. 

 Tumix taigoor. 

 Cursorius coromande- 



lianus. 

 Esacus lecurvirostris. 

 CEdicnemus crepitans. 

 Sarciophorus bilobus. 

 Lobivauellus goensis. 

 Chai-adrius virginicus. 

 Hiaticula Leschenaultii . 

 H. cantiana. 

 H. philippina. 

 Hiraantopus candidus. 

 Totanus glottis. 

 T. fiiscus. 

 T. calidiis. 

 Actitis glareola. 

 A. ochropus. 

 A. hypoleucos. 

 Limosa aegocephala. 

 Numenius arquata. 

 N. phseopus. 

 Tringa subarcuata. 

 T. platyrhyucha. 

 T. tninuta. 

 Strepsilas interpres. 



Scolopax rusticola. 

 Gallinago stenura. 

 G. gallinula. 

 Rhynchea bengaleasis. 

 ILydrophasianus «hi- 



nji'gus. 

 Falcinellus igneus. 

 Threskiornis melaiioce- 



phalus. 

 Tantalus leucoceplialus. 

 Platalea leucovodia. 

 Anastomus oscitaus. 

 Dromas ardeola. 

 Ciconia leucocephala. 

 Ardea cinerea. 

 A. purpurea. 

 Herodias alba. 

 II. intermedia. 

 H. garzetta. 

 H. bubulcus. 

 H. asha. 



Butorides javanica. 

 Ardeola leucoptera. 

 Nycticorax griseus. 

 Tigrisomamc lano'opha. 

 Ardetta flavicolhs. 

 A. cinnamomea. 

 A. sinensis. 

 Porphyrio polioeepha- 



lus. 



Gallicvex cristatus. 

 Porzana phcenicura, : 

 P. pygmaQa*]iT)I grjoofe 

 P. fusca. ' )■} nqui^ji 

 P. zeylanica. I? xoniVI 

 Rallus striatus.anodjA 

 R. indicus. jiTntinvi^ 

 Galliatda chloropus. 

 Larus brunnicephalus. 

 Sylochelidon caspius. 

 Geloehelidon anglicus. 

 Hydioclielidoii iudicus. 

 H. niger? 



Thalasseus oristatua/) 

 T. bengalensis. i jjIA 

 Sterna hinuido- Ml! / 

 S. javan'ca. 

 S. minuta. 

 Pelicanus javanieus. 

 Graculus carbo, 

 G. pygmjEUS. ; 



Plotus melanogaster. 

 Phoenicopterus roseus. 

 Dendrocygna arcuata. 

 Aaas pcecilorhyncha. 

 Dafila acuta. 

 Querquerdula crecca. 

 Poiliceps philippensis*. 



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* All these, with the exception of Palumbus Elphinstonii, I have ob- 

 served myself. Dr. Kelaart has just added several more. I copy Mr. Blyth's 

 letter in which he gives Dr. Kelaart credit for the discovery : — " Dr. Ke- 

 laart's collection has reached me, and is a most interesting one. It consists 

 of skins of mammalia and birds only ; among the latter the novelties ai-e — 

 a new Garrulax affined to the Nilgu-i Delesserti, and the female of a new 

 Brachyjjterffx : other birds new to Ceylon are, Merula Wardii, Scops sunia 

 (so called), and a Caprimulgus like indicus, but smaller, and with the colours 

 more strongly contrasted, of which I had previously a Nilgiri specimen, 

 which I always suspected would prove to be of a distinct race. I had nearly 

 forgotten to mention the finest of all — a noble specimen of Spizaetus nipa- 

 lensis (Hodgs.), which I have never previously seen from anywhere southw ard 

 of the Himalaya. The mammalia comprise many novelties : — of Monkeys 

 a large fellow like cephalopterus, but larger, and bearing the relationship to 

 that species which your large Schirus Tennentti does to S. waCroiirus. Of 

 Bats, a small Pteropus, which I suspect is new, and is certaitily neither 

 Leschenaultii nor Dussu?nieri ; three new RhinohpM, as they appear to 

 me? Taphozaus longimanm (Hardvvicke), and a new Nycticejus, which I 

 have long had from Chiebassa in Central India, and termed isaheUimis, 

 but I have published no description. Of Carnivora, what he has sent as 

 two varieties of Jackal, appear to me to be merely slight individual valua- 

 tions of C. aureus. His Paradoxurus nwnfanus, a very haiidsome ani- 

 mal, I think can only be regarded as a very dark-coloured and full-furred 

 variety ot P. zet/laincus, esiiecially as he sends an intermediate specimen. 

 His two Sonets are both decidedly new. Of Squirrels, he scuds Pteroiiiys 



