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587. Anthipes sp. V (olivacbus ?), Hume. Gates, II, p. 34. 



I can only make a guess at the identity of a flycatcher I met with 

 near Port Blair during the first week in October. It flew out of a clump 

 of bamboos overhanging a stream, captured an insect, and returned to its 

 perch. My attention being attracted by its reddish-brown tail and rump, 

 I crept close up to it and had a good view of it sitting not more than 

 ten feet ofP. In colour it was brown above, the rump and tail conspicuously 

 reddish when it was on the wing ; below pale buff or whitish. In size 

 it was similar to, or perhaps a trifle larger than, A. latirostris. I had only a 

 12 bore gun with me at the time, and, the bird being so tame, I thought 

 I could knock it over with a catapult I had in my pocket, and with this 

 rather uncertain weapon I managed to miss it. The next day I went after 

 it with a '410 bore gun, but though I saw the bird again it darted off 

 among the bamboos and dodged me somehow, nor could I find it a third 

 time. Looking through the flycatchers in Mr, Oates's work it struck me 

 this might have been the above species, which he says occurs in Tenasserim, 

 Java and Borneo. At any rate one species of flycatcher must be added to 

 those already known to occur ia the group. 



588. ALSEONAX LATIROSTRIS, Raffl. Oates, II, p. 35i "Str. Feath.," II, p. 219. 

 A fairly common winter migrant to the Andamans. 



600. Terpsiphone nicobarica, Oates. Oates, II, p. 48 ;" Str. Feath.," 

 II, p. 216. 



This form of Paradise Flycatcher occurs in both groups. Davison says 



it is " exceedingly rare at both the Andamans and Nicobars." At the 



Andamans it is certainly rare — I only saw it twice in eight months— but 



. on the Nicobars young birds seemed to me fairly numerous. I did not see 



a single specimen in the white plumage of the adult male. 



601. Hypothymis AZUREA, Bodd. Oates, 11, p. 49; "Str. Feath.," II, p. 217. 

 The Azure Flycatcher is exceedingly common on the Nicobars, but in the 



Andamans is replaced by the next species. Mr. Oates says he has not seen 

 a nestling ; noting this, I tried to get one on Car Nicobar during my stay 

 there, where the bird was very plentiful. I failed to get a very young bird, 

 but from the number of birds in female plumage, I suspect the nestling 

 much resembles the adult female. 



Mr. Oates is quite correct in considering that the alleged difference 

 between //. azurea and H. ceyloneusis does not hold good. I have seen 

 and shot numbers of the Ceylon bird, and in adult males the black-throat 

 bar is, I think, always present. 



Car Nicobarese name — "Kalong tesa. " 



602. Hypothymis tytleri, Beavan. Oates, II, p. 50; "Str. Feath.," 

 II, p. 217. 



This species — or race ? — replaces H. azurea in the Andamans, where, how- 

 ever, it is much scarcer than tbat bird is in the Nicobars, Mr, Hume got 



