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forty-two specimens : it would take a long time to get as big a series near 

 Port Blair. I don't think I saw half as many all told, I only shot three, and only 

 preserved one, so am rather chary of making any remarks on the bird. All 

 three of mine, however, had some white on the lower surface. Mr, Hume says: 

 "The typical adult //, tytleri has not a particle of whiteabout the abdomen, 

 vent, and lower tail coverts"; and Mr. Gates in his key to the species says : 

 " Abdomen, vent and under tail coverts white:=//. azurea ; abdomen, vent 

 and under tail coverts blue=://. tytleri.'' Mr. Hume says, however, that a 

 Teressa bird (//. azurea) could not be separated as regards coloration from one 

 of the least typical H. tytleri. Mr. Gates says : " Such birds are not often met 

 with, and do not, in my opinion, affect the question," It seems to me that 

 adult males of //. tytleri with some white on the lower parts cannot be uncom- 

 mon, and I cannot see why these do not affect the question. 

 My three birds were : 



(1) $ adult (breeding), — Lower abdomen and vent white, under tail 

 coverts greyish-blue. 



(2) $ adult (breeding — nest taken). — Centre of abdomen white, vent 

 and lower tail coverts dull whitish-blue. 



(3) $ — apparently adult. Similar to last. 



Certainly none of these had anything like the amount of white on the 

 lower surface that a typical //. azurea has, but a beginner in ornithology — 

 myself, for instance — would have been puzzled, not knowing the locality 

 from which the birds came, to identify No. 1 by Mr. Gates' key, 



A nest and three eggs I took were exactly similar to those of //, azurea. 



610. Pkatincola MAURA, Pall. Gates, II, p. Gl ; " Str, Feath,, " II, 

 p. 233. 



Gnly a rare winter visitant to the Andamans. 



647, Cyanecula suecica, Linn, Gates, II, p. 99; "Str, Feath.," II, 

 p. 234. 



A scarce winter visitant to the Andamans, Mr, Gates considers it 

 probably also reaches the Nicobars, 



663, CoPSYCHUS SAULARis, Linn. Gates, II, p. 116; "Str, Feath,," II, 

 p. 230. 



An extremely common bird near the Settlement in the Andamans, probably 

 absent from the wilder parts of the islands, and not extending to the 

 Nicobars. 



I found numerous nests in the early part of the year. 



G65. CiT'iociNCLA ALBivENTRis, Blyth. Gates, II, p. 120; "Str. Feath.," 

 p. 232. 



This Shama is common throughout the dense jungle of the Andamans ; 

 its habits are much the same as those of C. macrura, excepting that 

 it keeps lower down in .the dense cover it frequents ; even when einging it 



