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excavated a hole 8 inches deep ; the soil was sandy, such as could be “ cut by a sharp-pointed stick without difficulty.” 
One nest contained four eggs of about the same date of laying; another, two young ones and four eggs, one of which 
was on the point of hatching off, and one perfectly fresh — showing that they are laid very irregularly. 
Page 314. — Citatum gujantea. Mr. Hume, I observe (“ List Ind. Birds,” Str. Death. 1879), still retains the name 
C. inclica for the Indian birds. I have shown, on examination of a series from widely extended localities, that the species is 
decidedly variable in the matter of the white patches. 
Mr. Bourdillon (Str. Death. 1878, p. 34) calls attention to the wonderful flight of these Swifts: — “ It is magnificent,” 
he remarks ; “their speed almost incredible ; the rushing noise as they dart through the air quite startling. I was much 
interested the other day in watching a flight of these Swifts feeding on a crowd of termites that, as usual, were swarming 
up from their underground nest. I was close enough to see that, at the instant of capture, the Swifts detached and 
rejected the wings of their prey.” 
Page 324. — Collocalia francica. This Swiftlet is noticed by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay as having been obtained in 1878 
by Mr. Carl Bock in Sumatra. 
Page 328. — Dendrocheliclon coronatus. Males from India have more rufous about the chin and cheeks than Ceylon 
example s ; this colour extends from the chin across the lower part of the face to the ear-coverts, forming a conspicuous 
facial coloration. I do not know whether this trifling difference is constant. The tints, of the plumage are otherwise 
the same as in Ceylonese specimens. 
Page 355. — Orioluts diffusus. With regard to this title of Mr. Sharpe’s, which I adopted for the Black-naped Indian 
Oriole, and my remarks in the “ Observation,” setting forth the grounds which that author had for altering the name 
hitherto employed, I observe a note of Mr. Hume’s (Str. Death. 1878, p. 392, B. of Tenass.), calling attention to facts 
which I had overlooked. The name indicus is one of Jerdon’s, not Brisson’s, which are indeed, as Mr. Hume points out, 
inadmissible. The former author observes, in the 1 Illustrations of Indian Ornithology,’ after remarking on the invalidity 
of the title chinensis, “ I have therefore given our peninsular species the appellation of indicus, partly because I consider 
that 0. indicus of Brisson and others may possibly refer to this, though faultily described.” I desire, therefore, to restore 
the usual title to this bird, and it will stand in the ‘ Birds of Ceylon ’ as Oriolhs indicus. 
Page 360. — Graucalus macii. This Shrike breeds in the North-west Province in July and August. The birds are 
very partial to Pain-trees, and in them they build, constructing a small nest of grass fixed on a branch, and scarcely visible 
from the ground beneath. Such a nest, found by an overseer of Mr. Parker’s, contained two young birds ; another nest, 
situated at the top of a Palu-tree, and to which this gentleman watched one of the owners carrying grass, was externally 
a large nest of small sticks (perhaps an old one of some other birds), lined inside with grass and leaves. It was fixed in 
the fork of a small branch. 
Page 360. — Pericrocotus peregrinus. Nests of this Minivet found in the Manaar district are described to me by 
Mr. Parker as beautiful little structures, “ made entirely of small leaf-stalks laid parallel, wound round and round with 
spider’s web, and covered all over with little patches of lichen. The nest is,” he writes, “ always on the top of a small 
overhanging branch (generally that of a wild mustard-tree) ; and so cleverly does the colour resemble the bark, that when 
I found my first nest, not more than 6 or 7 feet from the ground, I stared at it for several minutes before I knew it was 
one, though I saw the bird fly off it. The nest is firmly glued to the branch, so tightly, in fact, that it must almost be 
torn off piece by piece. It is cup-shaped, If inch wide and f inch deep.” The eggs are described as of a delicate rich 
green ground-colour, spotted with purple ; but they fade in about a fortnight after being prepared. 
Page 369. — Lcdage sykesi. In the synonymy I omitted the reference to Mr. Holdsworth’s Catalogue, which is 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 437. 
Page 372. — Tephroilornis pondicerianus. I am now able to give some particulars concerning the nesting of this 
Wood-Shrike in Ceylon. Mr. Parker writes me from Manaar of a nest containing two eggs recently found by him : — 
“ It was on the lateral branch of a * mustard-tree,’ near the end, and much resembled the nest of Pericrocotus peregrinus ^ 
but was flatter and wider, and was made of chips of dead wood, dead grass, and dead lichen, tied together with spider’s 
webs, and lined with the same mixed with a few fine fibres of bark.” Its measurements were 2| inches wide and J inch 
deep, and it was glued to a branch about 7 feet from the ground. Another nest found was constructed in the same 
manner. 
