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are in that part of the island ; and they do not appear to wander far 

 away. 



Ceylon, India eastward. 



320. Graculus sinensis, Shaw. 

 Recorded by Layard ; I have not identified it. 

 Ceylon, India, Eastern Asia. 



321. Graculus javanicus, Horsf. 



Very numerous in backwaters along the coast and in lakes inland. 

 It may be seen in dozens perched on the stakes of the fishing- 

 kraals, and will generally allow a boat or canoe to approach within 

 a short distance. 



Ceylon, India, Malaya. 



322. Plotus melanogaster, Forst. 



I have seen this bird frequently at Aripo ; and it is common on 

 some of the large inland tanks. It is also sometimes found near 

 Colombo. 



This species was first described and figured from Ceylon. 



Ceylon, India, Burmah, Malaya. 



Addendum. 



323. Prionochilus vincens, Sclater*. 



Discovered by Mr. Vincent Legge, R.A., at the foot of the hills in 

 the south of the island. It is described as frequenting the creeping 

 plants entwining the trunks of the trees. The discovery of this 

 new species in Ceylon is of considerable interest, as it is quite a 

 Malay form, and no representative of the genus has yet been found 

 in India. Dicceum is its nearest ally in Ceylon. 



"Bill black, paler below; irides reddish ; feet brownish black." 



Ceylon. 



7. Notes on a New Species of Tapir (Tapirus leucogenys) 

 from the Snowy Regions of the Cordilleras of Ecuador, 

 and on the Young Spotted Tapirs of Tropical America. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



[Received February 21, 1872.] 

 (Plates XXI. & XXII.) 



The British Museum has lately received the skins and skeletons 

 of seven Tapirs collected by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador, as under : — 



1 & 11. An adult female and a nearly adult male with rather 

 long hair, from Sunia, part of the snowy range of the Cordilleras. 

 * See below, P. Z. S. for June 18.— P. L. S. 



