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pink. Both sexes are similar in size, though varying inter se ; as the bird 

 is ?o little known I give the naeasurements of a dozen examples: — 



Mr. Blyth's type specimen is stiil in the Calcutta Museum, where I lately 

 examined it. 



Car Nicobarese name — " halue " or " haroitch." 



542. Agkopsar sturninus, Pall, Gates, I, p, 530 ; " Str. Feath,," II, 

 p, 249, 



The Daurian Myna occurs in the Nicobars ; Mr. Davison met with a flock 

 of seventy or eighty together at Camorta. I did not come across it ; I do not 

 think it can be common in the Nicobars, to which it is only a winter 

 migrant, 



549. AcRiDOTHERES TEiSTis, Linn. Gates, I, p, 537 ; " Str. Feath,," II,, 

 p. 246. 



Mr. Hume writing in 1873 says that this species, introduced by 

 Col. Tytler, though exceedingly numerous on lloss Island, had not then 

 extended to the main land. 



It is now one of the commonest birds at Port Blair, being very abundant 

 wherever there is cultivation, and roosting in hundreds in the clumps of 

 bamboos with which the Settlement roads are shaded. I also saw a few 

 frequenting the old guard house at the abandoned settlement at Camorta in 

 the Nicobars, where they were introduced from Port Blair, 



582. MusciTREA GRISOLA, Blyth. Gates, II, p. 31; "Str, Feath,," 

 II, p, 201, 



Gccurs on the Andamans and Cocos. It appears to be rare ; Mr. Hume's 

 party only obtained four specimens, and I only saw the bird once, oddly 

 enough the first morning I was at Port Blair, It was hopping about in some 

 mangroves near the sea j I watched it closely for some minutes, but having 

 other specimens to skin, and naturally concluding that a bird I met with 

 on my first morning I should be sure to see again, I did not shoot it — ^an 

 unfortunate mistake, as I did not have another chance of securing an 

 example. 



