282 Mr. E. L. Layard on the 
Thus stands the record, in its faded ink, of my first Falco 
peregrinus :—“ Open plain, Wally, near Point Pedro ; remains 
of Dotterel found in its maw.” 
Turn we now to F. chicquera. I read, “ Blyth, Pt. Pedro. 
Specimen seen near Aleoy, but not procured.” ‘‘ Blyth” and 
the mark (4/) showed that the example in my collection 
came from Blyth, so that I had a specimenin hand by which 
I recognized the bird I saw. 
So with Nisaetus fasciatus, which I failed to recognize under 
that'name, but which I remembered as soon as I read Legge’s 
description and saw the synonym 4. bonellii. I find in 
pencil, *‘ Blyth gives this from Ceylon.”? There is something 
rubbed out at the end of the line! a magnifying-glass shows 
me the words “‘sed non vidi” !! JI rubbed them out, I sus- 
pect, when I identified Templeton’s specimen. 
Perhaps this note, under Gyps indicus, may interest Capt. 
Legge :— Reported to have existed in Ceylon.” 
At page 177 of Capt. Legge’s book, pt.i., the orthography 
of my parrot again crops up, I hope for the last time! Ca.- 
THROP was my wife’s maiden name. She is descended from 
an ancient Norfolk family of that name, some of whom were 
Lords Calthrop. There are very ancient monuments to them 
in Norwich cathedral. How the title in the family lapsed, I 
do not know; but a Mr. Gough married one of them (a Bar- 
bara Calthrop, who, I suppose, wrote her name Calthorpe”), 
and obtained a grant of the old title as ‘‘ Lord Calthorpe.” 
Cuculus maculatus. This species I wrongly identified, and 
it is so entered in the Appendix to the ‘ Prodromus.’ In my 
copy the name is scratched out, and C. bartletti written over 
it. Under this name I described it in my “ Notes,” and I see 
Captain Legge introduces it as a synonym of C. poliocephalus. 
The late Mr. G. R. Gray informed me that my specimens 
were probably new. 
I have before me a series of sketches of birds and animals 
supposed, or known, to exist in Ceylon. They were sent me 
by Blyth, to be procured if possible. Among them are fac- 
* The name on the monuments is spelt as Z give it, but sometimes with 
a double pe 
