xn 
INTEODTTCTION. 
list : — Baza ceylonensis, sp. n., Scops minutus, sp. n., Glaucidium radiatum, Cuculus poliocephalus, 
Brachypternus intermedins, 1 Schoenicola platyura, Locustella certhiola, 1 Cotyle obsoleta, Prinia 
hodgsoni, Turtur tranquebarica, Coturnix communis, Machetes pugnax, Calidris arenaria, 
SEgialitis geoffroyi, BE. jerdoni, Glareola orientalis, G. lactea, Tringa temmincki , Ciconia alba, 
Tadorna casarca , Sterna saundersi, Sterna fuliginosa , Anous stolidus, Sula cyanops, Phaethon 
flavirostris. Four species have been renamed — Spizaetus nipalensis, Pyctorhis sinensis, Prinia 
socialis, and Acridotheres tristis, which appear in this work as Spizaetus kelaarti, Pyctorhis 
nasalis, Prinia brevicauda (App.), and Acridotheres melanosternus. 
In the subjoined Table will be found all the species which are recognized in the work as 
peculiar to the island ; among them are included two birds about which there are doubts as to 
their not being found in India. These are Brymoeca insularis and Brachypternus intermedins, 
the former of which may perhaps be the same as a South-Indian Wren-Warbler (I). inornatus). 
The birds here tabulated are all figured, with the exception of Prinia brevicauda and Turdus 
kinnisi, the reasons for the omission of which will be found in the Appendices. 
Table op Bieds peculiae to Ceylon. 
Families. 
Falconidse . . . 
BubonidfE . . . 
Psittacidae . . . 
Trichoglossidae 
Picidse 
Capitonidae . 
Cueulidas . . . 
Dicrurid® . . . 
Corvidae 
Muscicapidae . 
Number 
of species. 
Name. 
Hill-district 
(under 
5000 feet). 
Low country. 
Nuwara-El- 
liya plateau 
and over 
5000 feet. 
f Spizaetus kelaarti 
* 
* 
\ Spizaetus ceylonensis 
* 
* 
* 
f Athene castanonota 
* 
* 
* 
3 
-j Scops minutus .... 
* 
[ Phodilus assimilis 
* 
?* 
1 
Palaeornis calthropae 
* 
ii 
1 
Loriculus indicus 
* 
* 
f Chrysocolaptes stricklandi 
* 
* 
* 
3 
< Brachypternus ceylonus 
* 
* 
[ Brachypternus intermedius( App.il.) 
* 
f Megalaema zeylanica 
* 
* 
3 
■( Megalaema flavifrons 
* 
* 
[ Xantholaema rubricapilla 
* 
* 
f Centropus chlororhynchus 
* 
\ Phcenicophaes pyrrhocephalus .... 
* 
9 
f Buchanga leucopygialis 
* 
* 
{ Dissemurus lophorhinus 
t 
* 
i 
Cissa omata 
* 
IT 
* 
[ Stoparola sordida 
* 
3 
■< Alseonax muttui 
* 
|_ Hypothymis ceylonensis 
* 
* 
