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



continuo, breviter adnato, recto, simplice, acuto : operculo tenui, 

 comeo, arete spirato, medio concaviusculo, intus obtuse umbonali. 



Diam. major 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 

 marked variety of which was found on the same rock), in colour- 

 ing, epidermis, depth of suture, narrower and deeper umbilicus, 

 and the more circular and vertical aperture, which exhibits 

 nothing of the diagonal departure from the axis observable in 

 Pfeiffer's shell. The peristome also is acute and single, instead 

 of being double, slightly expanded and thickened, as in that spe- 

 cies, of which Mr. Layard's specimen is variegated with radiate 

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

 fulvous ground. 



London, June 1853. 



X. — Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an 

 eight years' residence in the Island. By Edgar Leopold 

 Layard, C.C.S. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, 



Should you deem the accompanying notes on the bii'ds of Cey- 

 lon worthy of a place in your Journal, they are at your disposal. 

 I flatter myself that they will be found to contain a complete 

 list of those birds as yet discovered in Ceylon. I have had the 

 advantage of consulting with Mr. Blyth and Drs. Templeton and 

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

 intimacy, and we mutually communicated our discoveries. I 

 have myself seen and shot most of the birds enumex'ated, in their 

 native haunts, for whether walking, driving or riding, I always 

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

 versed the greater part of the island. Besides travelling, I have 

 been some years stationed in the widely separated localities of 

 Colombo, and Pt. Pedro in the neighbom-hood of Jaffna, from 

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

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

 mals. The only parts I have left unvisited are Nuwera Elia 

 and Batticaloa and their vicinities. In the former place Dr. Ke- 

 laart long resided and carefully investigated, as his list shows. 

 From Batticaloa I have insi)ected small collections of birds ; and 

 the only part of Ceylon entirely unknown to either of us three 

 is the Park country, which I had hoped to exploi*e, but was pre- 



