1218 APPENDIX I. 



Page 646. — Placeus manyar. Captain Wade-Dalton writes me that he has shot this Weaver-bird near Buttawa. 



Page 673. — Pastor roseus. The year in which Mr. Holdsworth saw a flock of these birds at Aripu was of course 

 1866. The printer's error, " 1856,'' was overlooked by me. 



Page 687. — Pitta coronata. Mr. Holdsworth tells me that he has not only heard this bird at Nuwara Eliya in 

 August, but that he has seen it more than once there in that month. 



Page 702. — Turtur risorius. This Indian Turtle-Dove, Mr. Parker tells me, breeds in the Manaar district in April 

 and May. The nest is at varying heights from the ground, and is a thin structure of sticks, like that of the Spotted 

 Dove (T. suratensis). 



Page 711. — Turtur pulchratus. Captain Wardlaw Ramsay thinks that Eversmanu's title (Colwmba ferrago, Add. ad 

 Zoogr. Rosso- As. iii. p. 17. L842) ought to apply to this species, as he described an Asiatic Turtle-Dove having the tips 

 of the reetrices white ; whereas Hodgson's name pulchrata was bestowed on a bird in Gray's Zool. Miscell., without 

 giving any description. He points out an error I fell into in saying that Latham did not mention what colour the under 

 tail-coverts were in Turtur orientalis. I had only referred to his ' Index Ornithologicus,' where such is the case ; but in 

 his -General Synopsis,' ii. pt. 2, p. 647 (1783), he describes the under tail-coverts as " pale cinereous grey." 



Page 718. — Carpophaga cenea. Mr. Parker, who, I imagine, is the first collector who has taken the eggs of this fine 

 Pigeon in Ceylon, writes me of a nest he found in dense forest in the Uswewa district. It was built of thin twigs, about 

 20 feet from the ground, in a thick young tree. It contained two eggs, which were unfortunately broken ; they were 

 elliptical in shape, and considerably larger than those of the Green Pigeon (Osmotreron pompadora). 



Page 725. — Osmotreron bicincta. The same gentleman has sent me an egg of this species, taken by himself. It is 

 a broad ellipse, and almost the same at both ends, pure white, and measures l - 08 by - 87inch. Another nest, found 

 by him in thick forest, is described as constructed in the slightest manner of twigs, about 8 feet from the ground, near 

 the end of an overhanging branch. 



Layard reiterates (Ibis. 1880, p. 283) his assertion that this bird has a plaintive whistle. It maybe so; but I have 

 heard it make a hoarse croak, and always remarked that it was a much more silent bird than the Pompadour Pigeon. 



Page 728. — Osmotreron pampadora. Mr. Parker informs me that nests of this Pigeon are common in the north- 

 west in forest in May. They resemble those of the above-mentioned, and were situated at heights varying from 10 to 



40 feet ; the bird usually prefers the leafy top of a young tree 15 or 20 feet high, but will build also on the overhanging 

 branch of a Bo-tree. The nest is a very thin structure. 



Page 736. — Gallus lafayettii. As I have given two Plates of this bird, it is necessary to alter the description of the 

 Plate, last paragraph on p. 740, as follows : — The figures on the first Plate represent a cock from the Trincomalie district 

 and a chick shot on the summit of Allegala Peak ; those on the second Plate, a female from the Wellaway Korale and 

 an immature male bird from the Randy district. 



Page 755. — Cotumix chinensis. I have a specimen of this bird's egg now in my possession, taken at Bolgoda in 

 September. It is yellowish olive, speckled with small clearly-defined specks and points of brownish red; the larger end 

 is almost devoid of the latter markings, but shows the fine though open stippling only with which the egg is covered 

 beneath the specks. It is a broad somewhat pointed oval, and measures l - 03 by 0'77 inch. 



Page 701. — Tunii.v taigoor. Captain "Wardlaw Ramsay records this Quail as having been procured by Mr. C. Bock 

 in Sumatra. This is the lirst time that it has been obtained in that island. 



Page 781. — Gallinula chloropus. A second example of this species was obtained last December at Nikaweratiya. 



Page 800. — Bhynchcea capensis. Captain Wardlaw Ramsay records the procuring of this species in Sumatra by 

 Mr. Carl Bock in 1878. 



Page 821.- — Gdllinago scohpacina. According to Mr. Dresser the Common Snipe should be called Gallinago cosiest is, 

 a name given by Frenzel in ' Beschr. der Viigel und ihrer Eier in der Gegend um Wittenberg,' p. 58 (1801). It would, 

 perhaps, be well if this name were adopted by British ornithologists, as it is peculiarly adapted to the habits of the bird 

 in the breeding-season. The title gallinaria, as I have already stated, is wholly inapplicable. 



