1851.] species of Birds inhabiting Ceylon. 175 



Bovid^e. The wild Buffalo is common ; and it would seem that 

 formerly Bos gaurtjs inhabited the island, inasmuch as the Ouavera 

 of Knox can scarcely refer to aught else ; but, if so, it has now been 

 exterminated for nearly a century. 



Edentata. Mr. Layard writes — " I think our island Man is is 

 identical with the Indian M. brachyura, but it requires identification. 

 It is not uncommon. I have also seen another species which I have 

 little doubt will prove to be the long-tailed Pangolin of authors ;" or 

 can this be M. leptura, nobis, J. A. S. XI, 454, XVI, 1293? 



Cetacea. The Dolphins and Porpoises of the coast, and the 

 large Whales occasionally stranded, are all in need of accurate deter- 

 mination. 



AVES. 



Of Birds, Dr. Kelaart sent the following species worthy of remark : — 



Pal^ornis Calthrapje, Layard, Blyth, J. A. S. XVIII, 800, 

 XIX, 334. "Common at Newera Elia and lower down" (Kelaart). 



Scops Aldrovandi, rufous variety (Sc. sunia t Hodgson). Most 

 probably this is the Strix indica vel bakhamcena^ auct., from Ceylon.* 



Spizaetus nipalensis, Hodgson. Peculiar, so far as previously 

 observed, to the Himalaya. 



Harpactes fasciatus, (Pennant) ; Trogon malabaricus, Gould. 



Caprimulgus Kelaarti, nobis, n. s. Both sexes of a species 

 much resembling C. indtcus, Latham, but smaller, and identical with 

 the Nilgiri bird described in a note to /. A. S. XIV, 208 : and the 

 large specimen referred to on the same occasion, which we have now 

 much reason to believe was either from the Philippines or China, f is 

 doubtless also of a distinct race ; the three differing much as C. albo- 



NOTATUS, C. MACROURUS, and C. ATRIPENNIS, Or C. RUFICOLLIS 



and C. indicus, C. monticolus and C. affinis. These three 



ly resembles the Wapiti Stag of N. America; and the similitude of the horns 

 (at least at a particular age ?) is exhibited in figs. 2 and 8 of the plate referred to. 

 Compare also the young Wallichii, fig. 7, with the young Maral, fig. 10.— Since 

 the foregoing was in type, we have chanced to refer to the figure of the Wapiti in 

 Dekay's volume on the Mammalia of the State of New York, and the horns repre- 

 sented in that figure are absolutely similar to those of the great Asiatic Stag, as the 

 latter are given by Mr. Hodgson. 



* The name Bakka meena is applied to the Caprimulgi. 



t It formed part of the dispersed Macao museum. 



