194 ADDITIONS TO THE AVIFAUNA OF CEYLON, 



" The bill, bright red, becoming yellow at the tip of both 

 mandibles ; irides, dark brown ; eyelids, grey ; legs, bright 

 red ; claws, blackish homy." 



In regard to the food of these birds I may remark that, ac- 

 cording to my experience, they feed chiefly about sunset and a 

 little later. On moonlight nights parties of them have often 

 passed me on the river, and I have rarely failed to find remains 

 of fish in their stomachs when shot in the evening. I have 

 often found their stomachs apparently empty, as described by 

 Mr. Oates and Dr. Jerdon, but I think have more generally 

 found some remains of fish in them, no matter at what hour they 

 were shot. 



1004.— Pelecanus ? philippensis, Gm. 



Captain Feilden says he got "the Common Pelican" at 

 Thayetmyo ; probably it was this species. 



1007.— Graculus melanognathus, Brandt. 

 1008. — Plotus melanogaster, Penn. 



Mr. Oates says : " Both these species are common within 

 our limits." 



gbbttions to tje gbtfanna of Ceglon, anb notes on toons 

 ^u'us fonnb t\m. 



By W. Vincent Legge, r.a. 



Since the publication of my paper, antea, Vol. Z, p. 487, 

 Phodilits badius, Glareola lactea, and Onychoprion fuliginosa have 

 been added to the list of Ceylon birds, vide Mr. Hume's notes, 

 antea, Vol. I., p. 429, and Limnatus Kienieri, by a gentleman 

 in Ceylon, who published his discovery in the Journal of the 

 Ceylon Asiatic Society. I now give two additional species, 

 JVeophron ginginianus and Prima Hodgsoni, in the following 

 notes, and recapitulate Glareola lactea, in order to make a more 

 extended notice of it than was contained in the above paper. 



The numbers that precede the names are those of Dr. Jerdon's 

 work and Mr. Hume's Catalogue ; those that follow the name 

 in brackets are those of Mr. Holdsworth's Catalogue. All 

 measurements and descriptions of the soft parts, as is invariably 

 my rule, are taken from the specimen in the flesh, except 

 where the contrary is specified. 



