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similes of three of Brown’s wretched figures. One of these 
is thus marked by Blyth :— Trogon maculatus, auct., referred 
to Bucco by Gray ; but no Bucco has a barred tail. I suspect 
it is a very bad figure of a small Cuckoo, my Chrysococcyx 
smaragdinus, size ofa Nuthatch.” I certainly never procured 
any of the small shining Cuckoos in Ceylon, but should not 
be at all surprised to hear that one species at least was an 
occasional visitant. 
A second of Brown’s figures is thus marked—* Figure a 
little too highly coloured, upon which Bucco zealandicus was 
founded ; said to be two thirds the size of the original.” 
The third, and last, is a wonderful effort of the artist! <A 
curious grey bird, with three feathers in its tail!! Blyth 
remarks, ‘‘ This also is the original of some name. It is 
evidently a Drymoica, size of Hedge-Sparrow, probably there- 
fore D. sylvatica.’ These miserable figures offer a singular 
contrast to the life-hke drawings of Mr. Keulemans in the 
present work, and make me rejoice that anew era has dawned 
upon us! The wonder is that the old authors could have 
been satisfied with the awful daubs they offered to the public. 
Did that “gentle” body believe that such monstrosities 
“lived and moved and had a being” ? 
The remaining sketches by the same artist, Mr. Khulee- 
looddeen, consist of forty-two wonderfully accurate and life- 
like miniatures of birds and animals (four squirrels and one 
paradoxure). To give an idea of their size, Athene casta- 
nopterus is represented most perfectly, but barely an inch 
long! These figures enabled me instantly to detect Treron 
pompadoura when I rediscovered it at the top of the Bal- 
caddua Pass; and I would here remark that Capt. Legge 
has fallen into an error at p. 727 (2nd part), in thinking 
what I wrote about the whistle of Osmotreron bicincta was 
meant to apply to O. pompadoura. 1 was perfectly acquainted 
with both species, and could, and can now! discriminate 
between, and imitate, the whistle of the two birds in a mo- 
ment. I have shot dozens of the former off the fine teak 
trees that (used to?) exist in the magistracy compound at 
Negombo when I. was acting magistrate there; and in the 
