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if ever, seen in the elevated districts, the present species on the 

 contrary affects the hilly forest region;" I cannot but think that 

 he must have been mistaken in his identification. These remarks 

 of a certainty do not apply to M. Philippinus, which I have found 

 on all elevated patanas from the Knuckles to Upper Dimbula, in 

 which localities I have never seen a sign of the Chestnut-headed 

 bird. I do not think it extends above the elevation of Kandy. I 

 have never met with it in the south-east, though it is found 

 sparingly near the borders of jungle in the Trincomalee districts. 

 HoJdsworth records it in his catalogue from near Kandy. 



28. Tuckus Gtngalensis, Shaw,— The Ceylon Horn-Bill. 

 "Toncan" of Europeans. Kendetta, Sink. ; Buceros apud, Shaw* 

 Buceros Grin gal en sis, Shaiv. — Layard, Annals Natural History, 

 1854, volume 13, page 260. Kelaart, Prodromus Faunae Zeylanica^ 

 page 126. 



Affects all forests on the south-west and north-east, the high jungle of 

 the Morowak and Kukuln Korales and all parts of the Central 

 Province up to 2,000 feet, likewise the jungle in the north-west, 

 according to Holdsworth; but I did not observe it in the ana- 

 logous district of Kataragama, though it is possible it inhabits the 

 forests along the rivers of that part. It is numerous near Galle 

 in the Kottowe Mukalana and in the great Opate and Udugama, 

 as well as in the Morowak Korale and Hinidum forests ; also com- 

 mon in the jungles between Anuriidhapura and Trincomalee, and 

 probably in the wild country between ilatnapura and Avisawella. 



29. LoriculusIndicus,GW/^.~~ Ceylon Lorikeet. Girawa 

 Malitchia, Sink. Vide Holdsworth's Catalogue Ceylon Birds, 

 P. Z. S,, No, 66 ; Loriculus Asiaticus, Lath. — Layard, Annals 

 Natural History, 1854, page 261; Kelaai% Prodromus Faunas 

 Zeylanica, page 127. 



Very abundant in the south-west (which part is its head quarters) in 

 the cocoanut districts throughout all the cultivated parts of the 

 interior, and also in the forests at certain seasons when various 

 species of timber trees are in flower; common in the Central 

 Province, about wooded patanas in the Pussellawa, Dumbara, 

 Knuckles, and other districts of similar elevation. Occurs in the 

 Pasdun and adjoining Korales in the Western Province, but not so 

 abundantly as in the south. Layard traced it as far east as Ham- 

 bantota, but I believe it is absent from the country beyond that, 

 as also froni the Eastern Province. I did not meet with it in the 

 districts between Anuradhapura and Trincomalee, where I found 

 so many of our peculiar Ceylon birds {vide Note on Phgenico- 

 phous phyrrhocephalus), but I should not be surprised if it were 

 added to my list from that locality before long. 



