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ing quietly upon berries regardless of an observer. The old males are some- 

 what shier, though far from wild. I usually met with it in small parties 

 of five or six to twenty or thirty, often without a single old cock bird 

 among them. 



288. Otocompsa emeria, Linn. Gates, I., p. 276 ; " Str, Feath.," II., p. 225. 



The Red-Whiskered Bulbul is extremely plentiful in the Andamans, where 

 it is one of the commonest birds. Davison mentions meeting with it at 

 Camorta and Car Nicobar, where it had just been indroduced, but I saw 

 nothing of it at either of these localities, from which it may have since 

 disappeared. I found a nest or two in June. 



297. loLE KicoBAKiENsrs, Moore. Gates, I., p. 285 ; " Str. Feath,'' 11^ p. 223. 



A forest bulbul, peculiar to the Nicobars. It has been recorded from the 

 islands of Teressa, Bompoka, Tillangchong, Camorta, Nancowry, Trinkut 

 Katchall and Pilu Milu. Mr. Hume says that he did not observe it on Great 

 or Car Nicobar. Gccurring as it does on Pilu Milu, it is pretty sure to 

 extend to both the Little and Great Nicobars, but from Car Nicobar lying by 

 itself to the north of the other groups, it is certainly absent. 



312. MicROPUS FUSCiFLAVESCEN?, Hume. Gates, I, p. 295 j "Str. 

 Feath.," I, p. 297, and II, p. 224. 



This species has only apparently been obtained on the South Andaman 

 where Mr. Gates says '• it appears to be abundant." It appeared to me very far 

 from being so; indeed, I do not think I saw the bird more than a dozen times 

 during a stay of eight months. Davison's experience seems to have been 

 similar ; he only collected eight specimens in six months, and remarks that it 

 is "comparatively rare." It is a quiet, unobtrusive little bird, keeping to thick 

 jungle, and is almost always in pairs. 



326. DiGEBRUs ANNECTENS, Hodgs. Gates, I, p. 312; "Str. Feath,," II, p, 209. 



Mr. Hume says that Blyth received a specimen caught at sea by Captain 

 Lewis when nearing the Nicobars. Mr, Gates gives no later record cf its 

 occurrence in either group. 



332. DiCRURUS LEUCOGENYP, Wald. Gates, I, p. 317 ; " Str. Feath. " II 

 p. 210. 



Is, like the last, only a straggler to the islands. Captain Wimberley sent 

 Mr. Hume a specimen procured on November 5th, 1873. 



336. DissEMDROiDES ANDAMANENSis, Tytler. Gates, I, p. 321- "Str. 

 Feath.," II, p. 211, 



The small Andamanese Drongo is very common in the Andamans. Mr. 

 Gates says :" Habits, apparently, the same as those of D. ater." It is much more 

 of a forest bird than D. ater, being seldom met with outside the jungles. It is 

 highly gregarious, flocks of half a dozen to twenty travelling through the 

 forest together in search of food, either by themselves or in company with 

 Irena pudla, Sturnia andaraanensis, Graucalus dohsani, Pericrocotus anda- 

 manensis, etc. 



