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back to shoot specimens for the Doctor. He himself, like Dr. Kelaart, 

 never shot, but depended on his friends for specimens. I, of course, soon 

 became interested in the ' Ornis ' ; and on Templeton's leaving, at the end 

 of 1847 or beginning of 1848, he begged me to take up his correspondence 

 with the late Edward Blyth, then Curator of the R. A. S. Calcutta 

 Museum. He left me his list of the species then known to exist in the 

 island, numbering 183, and Blyth's last letter to answer. From that day 

 almost monthly letters passed between the latter and myself, till I left 

 Ceylon in 1853. When I left I had brought up the list to 315 ; deduct 

 from this the novelties added by Kelaart, and some which I think he has 

 wrongly identified (but which are included in my list in the ' Annals '), 

 22 in number, and it le-ives me the contributor of 110 species to the 

 Ceylonese ' Ornis,' examples of most of which fell to my own gun. 



"My collecting trips never extended to the hill-parts where Dr. 

 Kelaart collected, Nuwara Elliya, &c. I was twice in Kandy, once at 

 * Carolina,' an estate near Ambegamoa, and once as far as Gillymally via 

 Ratnapura." 



The species discovered by Layard were sent by him to Blyth at 

 Calcutta, and the latter described a good many of them. None came to 

 the British Museum; many were presented to Calcutta, and the bulk 

 of his collection was given by him to a relative, and is now preserved 

 at the Poole Free Library, in Mount Street, Poole. 



The following is a list of the species discovered by Layard and 

 named either by himself or by Blyth: — Oallus lineatus, Blyth (=G. 

 lafayettei) (cf. Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 736); Palasornis layardi, Blyth 

 (= P. torquata) (cf. Salvadori, Cat. B., xx., p. 443) ; P. calthorpx, Layard 

 [this name has always been written calthropee, the mistake arising originally 

 from a printer's error, but Layard himself told me that he intended to 

 name the species after his wife, who was a Miss Calthorp (cf. my note, 

 p. 32 of «' Handlist of Birds," vol. ii.)]; Iyngipicus gymnophthalmus, 

 Blyth ; Chrysocolaptes stricMandi, Layard ; Cuculus bartletti, Layard 

 (=C. poliocephalus, juv.) (cf. Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 231) ; Centropus chloro- 

 rhynchus, Blyth; Tephrodornis affinis, Blyth; Dicrurus minor, Blyth; 

 D. leucopygialis, Blyth; Leucocerca compressirostris, Blyth ( — Rhipidura 

 albofrontata) (cf. Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 412) ; Butalis muttui, Layard ; 

 Oreocincla spiloptera, Blyth ; 0. imbricata, Layard ; Dumetia^ albigularis, 

 Blyth; Alcippe nigrifrons, Blyth ; Drymocataphus fuscicapillus, Blyth; 

 Cisticola malum, Blyth (= C. cisticola, Temm.) ; Drymveca robusta, 

 Blyth (nee Riipp.) ( = Prinia sylvatica, Jerd.) ; Hirundo hyperythra, 

 Blyth; Hetserornis albofrontata, Layard ( = Sturnornis senex); Euldbes 

 ptilogenys, Blyth ; Cissa puella, Blyth ex Layard N.S. 



In 1855 Layard went to the Cape at the invitation of Sir George Grey 

 and entered the Civil Service of Cape Colony. He founded the South 

 African Museum, and in 1867 published the " Birds of South Africa," 

 which was the means of stimulating the study of African birds in as great 

 a degree as had been done by Jerdon's " Birds of India " in the East. He 

 afterwards accompanied Sir George Grey on a special mission to New 

 Zealand, and then returned to the Cape as Judge and Commissioner under 

 the Slave Trade Treaties. In this capacity he visited the east coast of 

 Africa as far north as Zanzibar. 



He was next appointed Consul at Para, where he made a good collection 

 of birds for the Marquis of Tweeddale. This was described by him in the 

 "Ibis" for 1873, Picolaptes layardi and Thamnophilus simplex being 

 characterised as new by Dr. Sclater. After quitting South America Layard 

 was employed by the Government in the Fiji Islands, where he acted as 



