242 NOTES ON AND ADDITIONS TO CEYLONESE AVI-FAUNA, 
chiefly to the damper parts of the country. If the species 
recorded, by Hayes Lloyd is the same and not S. deva, this 
bird is also found in Kathiawar. 
It is darker in plumage, more rufous above, and whiter 
beneath, and has larger and more numerous breast spots than 
A. deva. The crest is rather shorter, whilst all the dimensions 
are larger. A male measures :—Wing, 378; tail, 215; tarsus, 
0:95 ; hind toe and claw, 08 ; culmen, 0°72; bill at front, 06. 
Wing in a female, according to Mr. Hume, measures 36. 
Slotes ow and Additions to Cevlonese Avi-fauna, with a Sotice 
of some apparently new Species. 
By Caprain W. V. Lraae. 
78.—Glaucidium malabaricum, Blyth. 
An Owl, which I conclude is this species, has for many years 
baffled my pursuit, although he constantly put me on his 
track by his extraordinary shouts uttered always in broad 
day light and at all times of the day. I contrived, however, 
to secure him some months ago in the Eastern Province. This 
makes an interesting addition to our list of Raptors. It 
inhabits the hill forests of all the south-west, the jungles of the 
south-east, and eastern districts and those of the Uva and 
Central Ranges. 
181.—Brachypternus intermedius, V. Sp.* 
Dimensions, male and female:—Length, 10"5 to 10°75; 
wing, 5’°2 to 54; tail, 35; outer anterior toe, 0"75 ; its claw 
straight, 0"45; versatile toe, 0"65; its claw straight, 0’°34; 
bill to gape, 15 to 1’°6. 
Soft paris, male.—lIris crimson; bill blackish slaty, pale at 
the base; legs and feet dusky greenish or pale olivaceous. 
The head and the white facial-and-neck-stripes as in 
puneticollis, with the ear coverts blacker or less marked with 
white than in that species; the hind neck, rump, tail, anterior 
part of wing, and the same part of the scapulars, similarly 
eolored black; back and scapulars orange, overlaid or 
washed with crimson ; the basal and central parts of the feathers 
being brownish orange, changing into crimson at the tips; 
wing coverts and outer webs of secondaries and_tertials 
reddish orange, the edges being brightest; the margins of 
* Tcannot see how this supposed new species differs from many specimens of 
puneticollis ( chrysonotus apud Jerd.), which is very variable in the points on which 
Captain Legge dwells.—Ep., 8. FP. 
