Mr, R. B. Sharpens Catalogue of Accipitres. 85 
of his very interesting work on the ornithology of Angola^ 
which will form a most welcome addition to the existing works 
relating to African ornithology. 
Mr. S. Bligh, of Catton, Ceylon^ has recently favoured me 
with a description of a living specimen of Limnaetus ceylon- 
ensisj which was taken from the nest on a large isolated tree 
near Badulla_, in Ceylon, and which he examined in the month 
of September, when the bird was about four months old. 
The age of the bird being thus known, I think it desirable to 
record Mr. Blights memorandum respecting it, which is as 
follows:— 
Bill black, cere slightly greenish; face feathered to the 
eyelids; eyes greyish blue, or bright lead-colour; a streak 
of white from the edge of the upper mandible runs up by the 
cere, ending in a direct line with the back of the eye, forming 
the eyebrow; the whole of the underparts white, the flanks 
slightly streaked with rufous brown; the sides of the breast 
with large oval streaks of the same, and the abdominal feathers 
with a few faint lines of the same; the whole head bright 
rufous brown, each feather on the crown slightly tipped with 
white, as also are the ear-coverts, showing distinctly the form 
of the latter; from the middle of the back of the neck the 
feathers have a central streak of brown, gradually shading off 
to the fine dark brown of the back, each feather being faintly 
edged with white on a paler brown border; crest black, with 
the longer feathers largely tipped with white, the shorter less 
so; the wings like the back, but with the large coverts white 
on the inner webs and tips, showing a long patch across the 
wing of rather more white than brown; primaries black ; 
secondaries dark brown, tipped with white; larger upper tail- 
coverts pale hair-brown; feet pale yellow.^^ 
On lately revisiting the interesting Limnaetus from Ceylon, 
presented to the Zoological Society by Captain Legge, and 
referred to in my last paper*, I find that in the interval of 
four months which has elapsed since my previous examination 
of it, the irides have assumed a more decided straw-colour, 
the crest has become longer and fuller, and the abdominal 
^ Vide Ibis, 1877, p. 431. 
