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INTRODUCTION. 



list: — Baza ceylonensis, sp. n., Scops minutus, sp. n., Glaucidlum radiatum, C'uculus poliocephalus, 

 Brachypternus intermedins, ? Schcenicola platyura, Locustella certhiola, 1 Cotyle obsoleta, Prima 

 hodgsoni, Turtur tranqnebarica, Coturnix communis, Machetes pugnax, Calidris arenaria, 

 JEgialitis geoffroyi, JE.jerdoni, Glareola orientalis, G. lactea, Tringa temmincki, Ciconia alba, 

 Tadorna casarca, Sterna saundersi, Sterna fuliginosa, Anous stolidus, Sula cyanops, Phaethon 

 flavirostris. Four species have been renamed — Sp>izaetus nipalensis, Pyctorhis sinensis, Prinia 

 socialis, and Acridotheres tristis, which appear in this work as Spizaetus kelaarti, Pyctorhis 

 nasalis, Prinia brevicauda (App.), and Acridotheres melanosternus. 



In the subjoined Table will be found all the species which are recognized in the work as 

 peculiar to the island ; among them are included two birds about which there are doubts as to 

 their not being found in India. These are Prymosca insularis and Brachypternus intermedins, 

 the former of which may perhaps be the same as a South-Indian Wren-Warbler (I), inomatus). 

 The birds here tabulated are all figured, with the exception of Prinia brevicauda and Tardus 

 Mnnisi, the reasons for the omission of which will be found in the Appendices. 



Table of Bikds peculiar to Ceylon. 



Families. 



Number 

 of species. 



Name. 



Hill-district 



(under 

 5000 feet). 



Low country. 



Nuwara-El- 



liya plateau 



and over 



5000 feet. 



FalconidaB 



2 



3 



1 

 1 



3 



3 



2 



2 

 1 



3 





* 

 * 



* 

 * 

 * 



* 



* 



* 

 * 



* 

 * 



* 



* 

 t 



* 



* 



* 



* 



* 



?* 



II 



* 



* 

 * 



* 



* 

 * 

 * 



* 

 * 



* 

 * 



* 

 * 



* 

 * 



* 

 * 



* 





Bubonidfe 







Psittacidae 



Trichoglossidfe 



Loriculus iudicus 



Picidae 





CapitouidcB 



( Brachypternus iiitermedius(App.IL) 

 ( Megalsema zeylanica 







{ Phoenicophaes pyrrhocephalus .... 











Muscicapida? 









[ Hypothymis ceylonensis 







