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Table of Birds peculiar to Ceylon ( continued ). 
Families. 
Number 
of species. 
Name. 
Hill-district 
(under 
5000 feet). 
Low country. 
Nuwara-El- 
liya plateau 
and over 
5000 feet. 
Myiophoneus blighi 
* 
* 
Turdidfe 
4 
Turdus kinnisi (App. II.) 
* 
* 
j Turdus spiloptera 
* 
* 
* 
Oreocincla imbricata 
* 
* 
o 
f Rubigula melanictera 
* 
* 
t 
\ Kelaartia penicillata 
* 
* 
' Malacocercus rufescens 
* 
* 
* 
Garrulax cinereifrons 
* 
+ 
Pomatorhinus melanurus 
* 
* 
* 
Alcippe nigrifrons 
* 
* 
* 
10 
Pellorneum fuscicapillum 
* 
* 
t 
< 
Pyctorhis nasalis - 
* 
* 
Prinia brevicauda 
* 
* 
Elaphrornis palliseri 
t 
* 
Drymceca valida 
* 
* 
?Drymoeca insular is 
* 
f Pachyglossa vincens 
* 
* 
Dicseid® 
2 
l 
Hirundo hyperythra 
* 
* 
§ 
1 
Munia kelaarti 
* 
* 
f Acridotheres melanosternus 
* 
Q 
Eulabes ptilogenys 
* 
II 
[ Sturnornis 
* 
1 
?* 
1 
Palumbus torringtonise 
* 
* 
[ G-allus lafayettii 
* 
* 
* 
Phasianidse 
2 
He 
* 
* 
(jrallopemix uiuuiuaiiu'a 
t Not common. + Certain forests of Western Province in N.E. monsoon. _ . 
§ Occasional. || Spreading into the forests at the base of the hills, particularly m the W. Province. 
In the forests of the Passedun Korale, down to 600 feet near Moropitiya. 
It will be seen that this Table comprises 47 species. One peculiar genus (. Elaphrorms ) 
inhabits the island, its nearest ally being the Malayan and Himalayan Brachypteryx , and 
subgenus ( Sturnornis ) is likewise recognized. 
Affinities of the Ceylonese Avifauna. — We now come to the important point of the 
relationship of the Ceylonese ornis to that of adjacent regions; and this, as might be expected 
from the geographical position of the island and its separation from the mainland merely by a 
