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148. Totanus glareola, Temm., the Wood Sand-piper.— Very 

 common in N.-E. monsoon. 



149. Totanus ochropus, Temm., the Green Sand-piper.— Fairly 

 common in N.-E. monsoon. 



150. Tringoides hypoleums, Linn., the Common Sand-piper.— 

 Occurs sparingly in N.-E. monsoon. Sticks to streams and rivers in 

 preference to paddy-fields. 



151. Tringa subminutay Midd., the Long-toed Stint.— At 1,000 feet 

 a few may generally be seen among the large flocks of Wood sand- 

 pipers which frequent the newly-ploughed paddy fields. I have 

 shot this Stint at Fort Macdonald at an elevation of 3,500 feet. 



152. Charadrius falvus, Gmel., the Asiatic Golden Plover. — Small 

 parties about the lower-lying paddy fields this December and January, 

 though I did not observe any last year. 



153. LoUvanellus indicus, Bodd., the Red-wattled Lapwing. — 

 Always a few in the paddy fields at 1,000 feet in N.-E. monsoon. 



154. Sterna anglica, Montagu, the Gull-billed Tern.— Occasionally 

 ascends to 1,000 feet in large numbers in very wet monsoon weather, 

 feeding on crabs, etc., in the newly ploughed paddy fields. 



155. Dendrocygna javanica, Holdsw., the Indian Whistling Teal. — 

 Saw a single bird flying round and round a large inundated paddy- 

 field at Madigama this January, the first I have seen here. 



156. Dissura episcopa, Bodd., Holdsw., the White-necked Stork. — 

 Occurs occasionally in K-E. monsoon in paddy fields up to 

 1,000 feet. 



157. BuJndcus coromandus, Hume, the Cattle Egret.— Very 

 common at 1,000 feet to 2,500 feet. I do not think it breeds near 

 here. 



158. Ardeola grayi, Holdsw., the Pond Heron. — Same applies. 



159. Ardeiralla cinnamomea, Gmel., the Chestnut Bittern. — Com- 

 mon ; breeds in May, as a female shot then was evidently laying. 



160. Gorsachius melanolophus, Eaflfl., the Malay Bittern. — Since 

 these few notes had the honour of being read before the Society, I 

 have procured a beautiful specimen of this scarce Bittern, a male, killed 

 near Bibile some ten miles from here this January. Colonel Legge 

 enumerates nine instances of its occurrence in Ceylon between 1852 

 and 1877. 



