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APPENDIX I. 
Page 646. — Pleceus manyar. Captain Wade-Dalton writes me that he has shot this Weaver-bird near Buttawa. 
Page 673. — Pastor roseus. The year in which Mr. Holdsworth saw a flock of these birds at Aripu was of course 
1866. The printer’s error, “ 1856,” was overlooked by me. 
Page 687. — Pitta coronata. Mr. Holdsworth tells me that he has not only heard this bird at Nuwara Eliya in 
August, but that he has seen it more than once there in that month. 
Page 702. — Turtur risorius. This Indian Turtle-Dove, Mr. Parker tells me, breeds in the Manaar district in April 
and May. The nest is at varying heights from the ground, and is a thin structure of sticks, like that of the Spotted 
Dove (T. suratensis ). 
Page 711. — Turtur pulchratus. Captain Wardlaw Ramsay thinks that Eversmann’s title ( Oolumba f err ago, Add. ad 
Zoogr. Rosso-As. iii. p. 17, 1842) ought to apply to this species, as he described an Asiatic Turtle-Dove having the tips 
of the rectrices white ,- whereas Hodgson’s name pulchrata was bestowed on a bird in Gray’s Zool. Miscell., without 
giving any description. He points out an error I fell into in saying that Latham did not mention what colour the under 
tail-coverts were in Turtur orientalis. I had only referred to his ‘ Index Ornithologicus,’ where such is the case ; but in 
his ‘General Synopsis,’ ii. pt. 2, p. 647 (1783), he describes the under tail-coverts as “ pale cinereous grey.” 
Page 718. — Carpophaga oenea. Mr. Parker, who, I imagine, is the first collector who has taken the eggs of this fine 
Pigeon in Ceylon, writes me of a nest he found in dense forest in the TTswewa district. It was built of thin twigs, about 
20 feet from the ground, in a thick young tree. It contained two eggs, which were unfortunately broken ; they were 
elliptical in shape, and considerably larger than those of the Green Pigeon ( Osmotreron pompadora). 
Page 725. — Osmotreron bicincta. The same gentleman has sent me an egg of this species, taken by himself. It is 
a broad ellipse, and almost the same at both ends, pure white, and measures l - 08 by 0‘87 inch. Another nest, found 
by him in thick forest, is described as constructed in the slightest manner of twigs, about 8 feet from the ground, near 
the end of an overhanging branch. 
Layard reiterates (Ibis, 1880, p. 283) his assertion that this bird has a plaintive whistle. It may be so ; but I have 
heard it make a hoarse croak, and always remarked that it was a much more silent bird than the Pompadour Pigeon. 
Page 728. — Osmotreron pampadora. Mr. Parker informs me that nests of this Pigeon are common in the north- 
west in forest in May. They resemble those of the above-mentioned, and were situated at heights varying from 10 to 
40 feet ; the bird usually prefers the leafy top of a young tree 15 or 20 feet high, but will build also on the overhanging 
branch of a Bo-tree. The nest is a very thin structure. 
Page 736. — Oallus lafayettii. As I have given two Plates of this bird, it is necessary to alter the description of the 
Plate, last paragraph on p. 740, as follow's : — The figures on the first Plate represent a cock from the Trincomalie district 
and a chick shot on the summit of Allegala Peak ; those on the second Plate, a female from the Wellawmy Korale and 
an immature male bird from the Kandy district. 
Page 755. — Coturnix chinensis. I have a specimen of this bird’s egg now in my possession, taken at Bolgoda in 
September. It is yellowish olive, speckled with small clearly-defined specks and points of brownish red ; the larger end 
is almost devoid of the latter mai'kings, but shows the fine though open stippling only with which the egg is covered 
beneath the specks. It is a broad somewhat pointed oval, and measures l - 03 by 0-77 inch. 
Page 761. — Tumix tairjoor. Captain Wardlaw Ramsay records this Quail as having been procured by Mr. C. Bock 
in Sumatra. This is the first time that it has been obtained in that island. 
Page 781. — QaUinula chloropus. A second example of this species was obtained last December at Nikaweratiya. 
Page 800. — Rhynehcea capensis. Captain Wardlaw Ramsay records the procuring of this species in Sumatra by 
Mr. Carl Bock in 1878. 
Page 821. — Gallinago scolopacina. According to Mr. Dresser the Common Snipe should be called Gallinago coelestis, 
a name given by Erenzel in ‘ Beschr. der Vogel und ihrer Eier in der Gegend urn Wittenberg,’ p. 58 (1801). It would, 
perhaps, be well if this name were adopted by British ornithologists, as it is peculiarly adapted to the habits of the bird 
in the breeding-season. The title gallinaria, as I have already stated, is w’holly inapplicable. 
