204 Letters, Announcements, ^c. 
description tallies very well with my specimens^ which were 
procured in forest in the north and west of the island; hut he 
makes no mention whatever of the very delicate yellow legs 
and feet^ which are the chief characteristics of the bird ; nor 
does he speak of the white spot on the lores^ nor the con¬ 
spicuously dark patch on the lower part of the face, contrast¬ 
ing with the rather narrowly confined white of the throat. 
Notwithstanding, the description, short as it is, comes too 
close to my birds to permit of my considering them as be¬ 
longing to another species. Alseonaxferrugmeus differs from 
the Ceylon bird in the much deeper rufous of the rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and margins of the wing-coverts, but more par¬ 
ticularly in the rufescent hue of the lower parts, including 
the under tail-coverts, these being white in the insular form. 
Locustella certhiola, Pallas. 
Locustella certhiola, Jerdon, B. of India, vol. ii. p. 159. 
This Grasshopper-Warbler must be added to the Ceylonese 
avifauna. It is found in certain swamps of the western pro¬ 
vince, and was procured by me in February last year. 
Tringa pugnax. 
The Buff is another addition to our list, a young male 
having been shot last March by Capt. H. Wade, 57th Begt., 
near Kirinde, on the S.E. coast. 
I am, yours &c., 
March 4th, 1878. W. V. Legge. 
233 Beacon Street, Boston. 
March 3rd, 1878. 
Sirs, —The Parula recently obtained by Dr. Merrill on 
our southern frontier, and supposed by him to be only the 
commom P. americana, is not, in the opinion of Dr. Coues, 
P. pitiayumi, but a new species, for which he proposes the 
name of P. nigrilora, 
Neocorys spraguei has been taken by Mr. Geo. B. Sennett 
near Galveston. 
Besides these acquisitions, new to our fauna, Mr. Sennett 
and Dr. Merrill have taken a number of specimens of the 
Dove Leptotila albifrons. Bp. It was first shot by Mr. Sen- 
