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Long. 12f Mil.—§\ Mil.— Alt. 2 Mil, 



Rare, — S. Prov. Ceylon. 



We know of no other species of the genus with a similarly formed 

 foramen ; it differs from M. hiantula, Swains., not onty in the above 

 respect, but also in colour and in being laterally more compressed. 



Rocellaria cordiformis— N. S., Pi. XVII, Fig. 18. 



T. parva, fragilis, longitudinaliter oblonga, albida, antice obtuse 

 acuminata, postice producta, sub-rotundata ; umbonibus tumescentibus, 

 paulo prominentibus, incurvatis ; hiatu cordiformi, parvo, vix dimidiam 

 partem testa occupante ; superjicie striis subtilibus, antice fortioribus, 

 undique acutis ac confertis ornata, et sulca Icevi ab umbone utriusque 

 valvule oblique ad marginem ventralem medianum decurrente notata. 



Long, 6^ Mil—Diam. 3J Mil. 



S. Prov. Ceylon. In coral. 



The smallness of size and the peculiar heart-shaped form of the 

 hiatus, easily distinguish this species from others. 



Ornithological Notes, chiefly on some birds of Central, Western and 



Southern India ; by William T. Blanford, F.G-.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. 



[Read and received 3rd March, 1869.] 



The following are a few notes on collections of birds made 1st, in Nag- 

 ptir, Chanda, and on the upper Godavery ; 2nd, at and near Khandalla 

 on the Western Ghats near Bombay ; 3rd, on the Nilgiri hills in Sou- 

 thern India. The first alone was large, and was made during the cold 

 and hot seasons of 1866-67 ; the other two during short visits to the 

 places named. By far the greater portion of the ensuing pages refer 

 to the first collection alone. Several of the birds observed and collect- 

 ed are very rare : one, Salpomis spilonotus, Franklin, had only been 

 previously procured by the describer and by Mr. Hodgson, and no 

 specimen of the bird was ever seen by Mr. Blyth or by Dr. Jerdon, 

 until very recently. Hirundo fluvicola had not, so far as I am 

 aware, ever been found again in Central India, since Dr. Jerdon first 

 described it, and Cyornis Tickellice, Blyth, has equally escaped observa- 

 tion since first collected by the excellent ornithologist after whose 

 wife it was named, while the range of several species noted below, was 

 not previously known to extend into the countries mentioned. 



