Mr. E. L. Layard on the Ornithology of Ceylon. 97 continue, breviter adnato, recto, simplice, ^^uto : operculo tenvu, corn?o arete spirato, medio concaviusculo. intus obtuse uxnbouah. Diam maior 13, minor 10, alt. 5 mill. _ ^ Hab ad Damboul, ad verticem rupis, in rimis saxorum. It differs from C. loxostoma, Pfeiffer (a large and handsomely inaxled variety of which was found on the same rock), m colour-r«^ epidermis! depth of suture, narrower and deeper umbdicus, a°fd the more cir^cular and vertical aperture, which exhxbi^ nothin.-of the diagonal departure from the a^s observable in PfSs shell. The peristome also is acute and single instead of b!Sg double, slighti; expanded and thickene^ as m that^^^^^ ries of which Mr. Layard's specimen is variegated with raaiate and undulated chestnut stripes, and with a smgle band on a fulvous ground. London, June 1853. X^Notes on the Ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an eight year^ residence in the Island. By Edgar Leopold Layard, C.C.S. To the Editors of the Annah of Natural History . Gentlemen, . Should vou deem the accompanying notes on the birds of Cey-lon worhfof a place in your Journal, they are at your disposal Xltei myself that the'y.will be found to cont-; complete \W\ of those birds as yet discovered m Ceylon. 1 have had tne atantatof consulting with Mr. Blyth and Drs. Templeton and kelaart, with each of whom I have been on terms of the closest kit macV and we mutually communicated our discoveries I ha fn^'self seen and shot Lst of the birds enumerated, mthei native haunts, for whether walkmg, d^mng or ridmg I always carried my telescope and collecting gun, and I have thus tra-versed the greater part of the island. Besides travellmg I have bSn some 'years st'ationed in the widely -paratf lo^h^^^^^^^^^ Colombo, and Pt. Pedro m the ^e^g^^«^^^«f^;[^,JX forTe which places I made frequent excursions into the jungle, tor the purpose of collecting and observing the habits of birds and an -mals The only parts I have left unvisited are Nuwera Elia and Batticaloa a'nd^heir vicinities. In the omer f ce D^^^^^^ laart long resided and carefully investigated, as ^i%^^^t/^«'^^'-Frl Balicaloa I have inspected small -1 Actions ^^^^^^ the only part of Ceylon entirely unknown to eithei ot us three is the Park country! which I had hoped to explore, but was pre-
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