CUAP. II.] 



LIST OF BIRDS. 



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List of Ceylon Birds. 



In submitting this catalogue of the birds of Ceylon, I am 

 anxious to state that the copious mass of its contents is mainly 

 due to the untiring energy and exertions of my friend, Mr. E. L. 

 Layard. Nearly every bird in the list has fallen by his gun ; 

 so that the most ample facilities have been thus provided, not 

 only for extending the limited amoimt of knowledge which 

 formerly existed on this branch of the zoology of the island ; but 

 for correcting, by actual comparison with recent specimens, the 

 errors which had previously prevailed as to imperfectly described 

 species. The whole of Mr. Layard's fine collection is at present 

 in England. 



Accipitres. 



Aquila Bonelli, Temm. 



pennata, Gm. 

 Spizaetns Nipalensis, Hodgs. 



limnteetus, Horsf. 

 Ictinaetus Malayeiisis, Reinw. 

 Haematornis cheela, Daud. 



spilogaster, Blyth. 

 Pontoaetus leucogaster, Gm, 



ichthyaetus, Horsf. 

 Haliastur Indus, Bodd. 

 Falco peregrinus, Linn. 



peregrinator, Sund. 

 Tinnunculus alaudaiius, Biiss. 

 Hypotiiorchis chit-quera, Daud, 

 Baza lophotes, Cur. 

 Milvus govinda, St/hes. 

 Elaniis melanoptcnis, Daud. 

 Astur trivirgatus, Temm. 

 Accipiter badius, Gm. 

 Circus Swainsonii, A. Smilh. 



cincrascens, Mont. 



nielanoleucos, Gm. 



CEniginosus, Linn. 

 Athene castoiiatus, Blyth. 



scutulata. Raffles. 

 Ephialtes scops, Linn. 



lempijii, Horsf. 



sunia, Hodgs. 

 Ketupa Ccyloncnsis, Gm. 

 Syrniuna Indrance, Sykes. 

 Strix Javanica, Gm. 



Passeres. 



Batrachostomus moniliger, Layard. 

 Caprimulgus Mahrattensis, Sykes. 



Kelaarti, Blyth. 



Asiaticus, Lath. 



VOL. I. 



Cypselus batassieusis. Gray. 



niclba, Linn. 



affiuis, Gray. 

 jMacropteryx coronatus, Tichell. 

 CoUocalia brevirostris, McClel. 

 Acanthylis caudacuta, Lath. 

 Hirundo pauayaua, Gm. 



daurica, Linn. 



hypcrythra, Layard. 



doniicola, Jerdon. 

 Coracias Indica, Linn. 

 Harpactcs fa.sciatus, Gm. 

 Eurystomus orientalis, Linn, 

 Halcyon Capensis, Linn. 



atiMcapillus, Gm. 



Smyrnensis, Linn. 

 Ceyx tridactyla, Linn. 

 Alcedo Bengalcnsis, Gm. 

 Ceryle rudis, Linn. 

 Merops Philippinus, Linn. 



viridis, Linn. 



quincticolor, Vieill. 

 Upupa nigripennis, Gould. 

 Nectarina Zeylanica, Linri, 



minima, Sykes. 



Asiatica, Lath. 



Lotenia, Linn. 

 Dicceum minimum, Tichell. 

 Phyllornis Malabarica, Lath. 



Jerdoni, Blyth. 

 Dendrophila frontalis, Horsf. 

 Piprisoma agile, Blyth. 

 Orthotomus longicauda, Gm. 

 Cisticola cursitans, Fiankl. 



omalura, Blyth. 

 Drymoica valida, Blyth. 



inornata, Sykes. 

 Prinia socialis, Sykes. 

 Acrocephalus duuietorum, Blyth. 



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