CHAP. 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 amount 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. 

 Spizaetus Nipalensis, Hodgs. 



limnasetus, Horsf. 

 Ictinaetus Malayensis, Reinw. 

 Hffimatornis cheela, Daud. 



spilogaster, Blyth. 

 Pontoaetus leucogaster, Gm. 



ichthyaetus, Horsf. 

 Haliastur Indus, Bodd. 

 Falco peregrinus, Linn. 



peregritiator, Sund. 

 Tinnunculus alaudarius, Bn'ss. 

 Hypotriorchis chicqnera, Daud. 

 Baza lophotes, Cuv. 

 Milvus govinda, Sykes. 

 Elanus melanopterus, Daud. 

 Astur trivirgatus, Temm. 

 Accipiter badius, Gm. 

 Circus Swainsonii, A. Smith. 



cinerascens, Mont. 



melanoleucos, Gm. 



erniginosus, Linn. 

 Athene castonatus, Blyth. 



scutulata, Raffles. 

 Ephialtes scops, Linn. 



lempijii, Horsf. 



sunia, Hodgs. 

 Ketnpa Ceylonensis, Gm. 

 Syrnium Indranee, Sykes. 

 Strix Javanica, Gm. 



Batrachostoimis irioniliger, Layard. 

 Caprimulgus Mahrattensis, Sykes. 



Kelaarti, B'yfh. 



Asiaticus, Lath. 



VOL. I. 



Cypselus batassiensis, Gray. 



melba, Linn. 



affinis, Gray. 



Macropteryx coronatus, Tickefl. 

 Collocalia brevirostris, McClel. 

 Acanthylis caudacuta, Lath. 

 Hit-undo panayana, Gm. 



daurica, Linn. 



hyperythra, Layard. 



domicola, Jerdon. 

 Coracias Indica, Linn. 

 Harpactes fasciatus, Gm. 

 Eurystomus orientalis, Linn. 

 Halcyon Capensis, Linn. 



atricapillus, Gm. 



Smyrnensis, Linn. 

 Ceyx tridactyla, Linn. 

 Alcedo Bengalensis, Gm. 

 Ceryle rudis, Linn. 

 Merops Philippintis, Linn. 



viridis, Linn. 



quincticolor, Vieill. 

 Upnpa nigripennis, Gould. 

 Nectarina Zeylanica, Linn. 



minima, Sykes. 



Asiatica, Lath. 



Lotcnia, Linn. 

 Diczeum minimum, Tickell. 

 Phyllornis Malabarica, Lath. 



Jerdoni, Blyth. 

 Dendrophila frontalis, IJi.rsf. 

 Piprisoma agile, Blyth. 

 Orthotomus longicatida, Gm. 

 Cisticola cursitans, Frankl. 



omalura, Blyth. 

 Drymoica valida, Blyth. 



inornata, Sykes. 

 Prinia socialis, Sykes. 

 Acrocephalus dumetorum, Blyth. 



