ils are
to be had at all times; the woodcock has occasionally been shot in the
hills, and the ubiquitous snipe, which arrives in September from
Southern India, is identified not alone by the eccentricity of its
flight, but by retaining in high perfection the qualities which have
endeared it to the gastronome at home. But the magnificent pheasants,
which inhabit the Himalayan range and the woody hills of the Chin-Indian
peninsula, have no representative amongst the tribes that people the
woods of Ceylon; although a bird believed to be a pheasant has more than
once been seen in the jungle, close to Rangbodde, on the road to
Neuera-ellia.

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_List of Ceylon Birds_.

In submitting this Catalogue of the birds of Ceylon, I am anxious to
state that the copious mass of its contents is mainly due to the
untiring energy and exertions of my friend, Mr. E.L. Layard. Nearly
every bird in the list has fallen by his gun; so that the most ample
facilities have been thus provided, not only for extending the limited
amount of knowledge which formerly existed on this branch of the zoology
of the island; but for correcting, by actual comparison with recent
specimens, the errors which had previously prevailed as to imperfectly
described species. The whole of Mr. Layard's fine collection is at
present in England.

ACCIPITRES.

Aquila
Bonelli, _Temm_.
pennata, _Gm_.
Spizaetus
Nipalensis, _Hodgs_.
limnaeetus, _Horsf_.
Ictinaetus
Malayensis, _Reinw_.
Haematornis
Bacha, _Daud_.
spilogaster, _Blyth_.
Pontoaetus
leucogaster, _Gm_.
ichthyaetus, _Horsf_.
Haliastur
Indus, _Bodd_.
Falco
peregrinus, _Linn._
peregrinator, _Sund_.
Tinnunculus
alaudarius, _Briss_.
Hypotriorchis
chicquera, _Daud_.
Baza
lophotes, _Cuv_.
Milvus
govinda, _Sykes_.
Elanus
melanopterus, _Daud_.
Astur
trivirgatus, _Temm_.
Accipiter
badius, _Gm_.
Circus
Swainsonii, _A. Smith_.
cinerascens, _Mont_.
melanoleucos, _Gm_.
_aeruginosus, Linn_.
Athene
castonatus, _Blyth_.
scutulata, _Raffles_.
Ephialtes
scops, _Linn._
lempijii, _Horsf_.
sunia, _Hodgs_.
Ketupa
Ceylonensis, _Gm_.
Syrnium
Indranee, _Sykes_.
Strix
Javanica, _Gm_.

PASSERES.

Batrachostomus
moniliger, _Layard_.
Caprimulgus
_Mahrattensis, Sykes_.