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Itisa larger* bird than minuta, has the bill bright yellow, and 
generally with a sharply defined black tip, at the breeding 
season. It breeds at Hambantotta (P. L. Z., 1875, p. 3877) 
ae at Kandelay and Minery Tanks in the northern half of the 
island. 
993.—Anous stolidus, Linn. 
An example, apparently, of this noddy was procured out of 
three at the Galle face beach in June. Wing, 10"°9 ; bill at front, 
2”1.¢ The forehead and front of vertex were white passing into 
greyish on the crown, throat slightly pervaded with grey. 
The above measurements correspond with those of Pacific birds, 
although they do not equal those given by Jerdon. 
A most interesting addition to the avi-fauna of Ceylon—a fine 
number of the genus Baza has of Jate been procured in the 
island. As it has been passed over all these years, it is doubtless 
a rare species, and its capture now is probably owing to the 
increased interest taken in bird collecting by the planters in 
Central Province. To this cause is also due the shooting 
during the last two years, of a number of examples of the 
magnificent Spizaetus nipalensis, as also the capture of a fine 
specimen of Nisaetus pennatus. Our new Baza of which I have 
two specimens, as far as I can judge from the material at hand, 
comes between B. magnirostris trom the Phillipines and B, 
sumatrensis from Sumatra, approaching the former in size, 
but differing in the, crest and closely resembling (in what 
is stated to be the young plumage) the latter species, from which, 
however, it differs in its smaller dimensions. The following 
are measurements and description of my bird :— 
Baza ceylonensis, VV. Sp.t 
Dimensions.—Length to front of cere (from skin) 16"5; cul- 
men 10"=total length, 17"5; wing, 11"°7; tail, 75; tarsus, 
15; mid toe, 1°35; its claw straight, 0"65; inner toe, 1:0; 
claws straight, 1"°6 ; bill to gape 12. 
* Captain Legge has kindly sent mea specimen. I cannot separate it from 
step pean apegunepes See further my remarks on this species in my Laccadive 
aper.—Ep., 8. F. 
: + This must I think certainly be Anous lewcocapillus, Gould. The bill in no 
specimen of stolidus that I have examined exceeds 1”8 at front. In Indian spe- 
cimens of leucocapillus it is 2” to 2/2, But the wing, 10”9 seems large tor this 
latter species of which, however, unlike stolidus, I have examined but few specimens. 
See further my note on this species in my Laccadive paper.—ED., 58. F. 
{If this species is really new, itis one of the most remarkable discoveries of 
recent times here. A Baza, rather a wandering genus, restricted to a small island 
like Ceylon, and even there of excessive rarity. In very many respects it seems 
to agree with the Baza from Sikhim and Tenasserim, that I was inclined to identify 
with swmatrensis, and that I provisionally distinguished (III, p. 314) as B incognita, 
but it seems too small for this, if the primaries are fully developed in the specimen 
measured by Captain Legge.—Ep., 8S, F, 
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