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337. DissEMUROiDES DicRURiFOEMis, Ilume, Oates, I, p. 322 ; " Str. 

 Feath.;'II,p.211. 



Occurs only on the Great Coco and Table Island, where it is numerous. I 

 did not visit the Cocos and know nothing of the bird myself. Its habits 

 are said to be those of the Dicruri. 



340. DissEJiuRDS PARADiSEUS, Linn. Gates, I, p. 325 ; " Str, Feath.," II, 

 p. 212. 



The Large Racket-tailed Drongo is fairly common in both groups, and its 

 sharp lively call of five notes is constantly heard in the jungles. Sometimes 

 in the evening they rise above the tree tops to capture termites and other 

 insects, following them to some elevation, and their flight is then graceful 

 in the extreme. 



3G0. LocusTELLA CERTiiiOLA, Pall. Oates, I, p. 352 ; " Str. Feath., " II., 

 p. 235. 



Fallas's Grasshopper Warbler is a winter visitor to the Andamans, appa- 

 rently scarce, though from its skulking habits doubtless often overlooked. I 

 only saw it once, when it rose from some grass right under my feet. I 

 failed to flush it again, but am certain of its identity, as I could see the 

 white on the tail which distinguishes it from the next species. 



361. LocusTELLA LANCEOLATA, Temm. Oates, I, p. 353 ; " Str. Feath.," 



I, p. 409. 



This Locustelle is fairly common in the Andamans in winter. Between 

 November and January I flushed it constantly in paddy fields, high grass, &c. 

 It is hard to flush — very hard to put up a second time, and probably for 

 every one seen a dozen are passed over. I found it very hard to i^rocure 

 specimens without knocking them to pieces. Its jerky flights are so short 

 that one has to fire at it at under twenty yards or it drops into the grass 

 again. It is extremely annoying after missing a dodgy little bird like this 

 once or twice through giving it too much law to see a perfect cloud of 

 feathers drift away after a shot, and to know before picking your little 

 victim up that it will be utterly useless as a specimen and has been destroyed 

 to no end. 



381. CiSTicOLA CURSITANS, Frankl. Oates, I, p. 374; "Str. Feath.," 



II, p. 235. 



This little Grass-Watbler is extremely numerous on the open grass-covered 

 plains and hills that are a feature of the Nicobar Islands j I am not aware 

 that it has been obtained in the Andamans, where the only open hills are 

 covered with short spear-grass, and not the rank coarse growth in which this 

 bird delights. 



393. Arunoinax aedon. Pall. Oates, I., p. 390; "Str. Feath.," II, p. 234. 



The Thick-billed Warbler is a common winter migrant to the Andamans ; 

 in the Nicobars it appears to be somewhat scarcer. When approached it 

 usually utters a loud " click-cliok-click, " which Davison aptly likens to the 



