. Zoological Society bulletin . ork, twenty-two genera of birds. Suc-cess attended our efforts tosuch an extent that we wereable to find and study everyone of these groups. In thepresent article I shall dealonly with our discovery ofthese two and twenty genera. Mrs. Beebe and the writerleft New York for London on December 26, 1909, andwere joined at Port Said bythe artist Mr. Horsfall, whoremained with the expedi-tion for the ensuing sixmonths. The first field work of theexpedition was undertakenin Ceylon, where six weekswere spent. At Colombo wewere most hospitably enter-tained by Dr. Willey,
. Zoological Society bulletin . ork, twenty-two genera of birds. Suc-cess attended our efforts tosuch an extent that we wereable to find and study everyone of these groups. In thepresent article I shall dealonly with our discovery ofthese two and twenty genera. Mrs. Beebe and the writerleft New York for London on December 26, 1909, andwere joined at Port Said bythe artist Mr. Horsfall, whoremained with the expedi-tion for the ensuing sixmonths. The first field work of theexpedition was undertakenin Ceylon, where six weekswere spent. At Colombo wewere most hospitably enter-tained by Dr. Willey, wellknown in American scientificcircles. He aided our searchin every way and is respon-sible for much of our suc-cess in this island. FromColombo we made two trips,one to -Randy and the cen-tral mountainous portion ofthe island, and the secondto the Yala Game Sanctu-aries on the extreme southern coast. The Peafowl, (Pavo). Ceylon Junglefowl,(Gallus) and Spurfowl, (GaUiperdix) werethoroughly studied by means of series of skins,. HAUNT OF THE BLOOD AND IMPEYAN zone of the eastern Himalayas, looking toward Kinchinjunga. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 765
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