1872.] MR. E. W. H. HOEDSWORTH ON CEYLONESE BIRDS. 459 



i, i . o«ri Mr Lpo-o-e cavs. is often to be seen on the 

 SE5S/S Tt prindpal'STthe Fort .at Colombo. It is 

 tulip-trees in uk u f surrounding district ; but I have never 

 SSlTfi SSSf or on the uppef hills. Specimens of this 

 TostTl ft m the Tow country in Ceylon vary somewhat » -* but 



tit been identified in England and Calcutta with Z. palpebrosus, 

 have ^n identuiea m ^ g g t m bemg 



SneSy sml? -d 'in £ JSlour of the bfl and legs HesayS, 

 S? 11 blackish, horny at the base beneath; legs reddxsh horny, 

 hut T find in freshly-killed birds the following colours :— 



Bnl"kleadenf paler at the base beneath; indes light brown ; 



legs and feet lavender. 



Ceylon, India, Assam, Arracan, Tenassenm. 



181 Zosterops ceylonensis, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 2.) 

 Tinner surface dark olive-green, deeper on the head and paler on 

 the upper ta 1 coverts ; a circle of small white feathers round the eye ; 

 ores an^beTow the ey dusky, but not very conspicuous ; chin throat, 

 anTcente of breast greenish yellow, shading at the sides of the neck 

 Tn Ss into the|lour of he b^ arid ^^^PP-^ 



under tad coverts yellow ; quills and tail dusky brown both margined 

 SSS^SK olive-green, and the latter faintly marked with trans, 



"Tpnl^-ysSefwlng 2-4, tail 1-8, bill at front '5, tarsus -7. 

 Bill S dark kadet "hovef paler below; irides light brown; feet 



la ^isat all seasonsone of f C ^^^t^T^^ 



Kelaart as z,._ a , ( Ornithology of Ceylon, 



K « 8 D? Ke to tSe ' we fear that the Nuwara Eliya Zosterops 



strongly identified; it is of a darker green than the common 



7 ZZTrosusr He then adds, « I, however, much doubt the di- 



ftinSsTofSis and the preceding species." _ A comparison of the 



wo bhds however, leaves no doubt that there fa a njarked ^erence 



Ween them, both in colour and in the form of the bill. Ine 



o d from the Ceylon hills cannot be identified with any recog- 



ned species and Mr. A. O. Hume, to whom I showed specimens of 



U whenl was at Calcutta, told me he had never seen ^m any of his 



m^v collections from the Neilgherries, a district (as I have before 



lionKlg closely in character and productions with the 



revChils Mr W. T: Blanford, in a paper on the Birds of 



Western I dia (J A. S. B. 1869, vol. xxxvin. p. 170), says, in speak- 



$7 tnlnrhrosus " the Nilgiri race is a little larger and appears to 



men, "beak -4, whig ^^\L%SSSm ""xhSobSS 



