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Spizaetus Kienerii. which I liave from Thyetmyo; but they may be ardens of Boie, which I have not seen.

The Andaman pipit is, I think^ the true cervinus, Pallas, the eastern form, disting-uished from Cecilii, Aud., vel. rufignlaris, Brehm, by its smaller size and by the colour of its breast and supercilinry stripe, which are pinker in the eastern and more rusty in the western form; rosaceus of Hodg-son is at once distinguished from both by its yellow axillaries.

Buchanga andamanensis is, I think, a very good species with its sharply carinated bill and its long bristle-like feathers springing from the upper edge of the nares, on either side of the base of These are very conspicuous in fine specimens. is very distinct from our Indian birds, but neither is it so from concretns, Hartlaub, 2xAfasciati.is, Vieillot, of which I have seen ? The Munia, very common in the islands, may be leuconota, Tem. It certainly is not the southern indian striata, L., with which the latter has usually (but I think wrongly) been identified, as the birds do not show any white shafting whatsoever to the feathers of the upper back. the culmen.

(xrancalus Bobsoiii,

The

koils are very puzzling*.

One

of the females

is

coloured

like Ransomi.

Of

SpiziBtiis

andamanensis, I

can only say, that one sent

me

might have sat for Gould^s figure of S. alboniger, Blyth, if only crest, which it hadu^t. it had a The little tringas, sent are all true minnta (cf. supra p. 243.)

A turnix sent appears to be a new species, close to onaculos'iis, but with a perfectly white abdomen, but the specimen is an indifi"erent one, and I have only provisionally suggested for it the name of albiventris.

In conclusion I must remark that so far as I have investigated the Andamans and it, the connection of the Avifauna of both Nicobars, is rather with India and Sumatra^ than with India and Malayana Proper. A. O. H.

 

Since I published the first part of my Rough Notes, several specimens of this very handsome bird have come under my observation, and I think that a full description of an adult with dimensions recorded in the flesh can scarcely prove useless; 