BIRDS COLLECTED BY DR. W. L. ABBOTT AND MR. C. B. 

 KLOSS IN THE ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS. 



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By Charles W. Richmond, 



Assistant Curator, Division of Birds. 



The followiug" li.st is based on a collection nunil)ering- about 520 spec- 

 imens, obtained at various points in tlie Andaman and Nicobar islands 

 by Dr. W. L. A])bott and Mr. C. B. Kloss, during the months of Jan- 

 uary, Februar}', and March, 1901. Most of this time was devoted to 

 the less-known islands of the last-named group, particularly Great and 

 Little Nicobar, as the Andamans have recently been more or less 

 thoroughly explored by Mr. A. L. Butler, who has published the 

 results of his work^ in a journal inaccessible to me. 



The collection forwarded to the United States National Museum by 

 Dr. Abbott contains nearly 100 species, of which 9 appear to be new, 

 namel}^: Zosterops ventialis^ Sturnia erytkropygia JcatchaJens/'s^ Rhi- 

 nomyias nicobarica^ Arachnechthra Mossi, Pitta abhotti^ Sjjilornis 

 Moss% Astur obsoletus^ Osmotreron chloroptera andamanica^ and Excal- 

 factoria.trinhutensis. 



All of the specimens are supplied with accurate data, in addition to 

 which the collector has sent notes, in some cases quite extensive, on 

 the habits and distribution of the various species. 



Hume's elaborate paper on the liirds of these islands'^ gives in detail 

 the topography and phj^sical characteristics of the two groups, and it 

 is unnecessary here to more than mention the localities visited by 

 Messrs. Abbott and Kloss. ^ 



These are as follows: Barren Island, Januar}^ 6 and 7; Henry Law- 

 rence Island (anchored in Kwantung Strait), January 8 to 11; Mac- 

 Pherson Strait, between South Andaman and Rutland islands (includ- 

 ing adjacent mainland), January l-l to 17; North Cinque Island, Jan- 

 uary 18; Little Andaman (Bumila Creek, at the north end of the island), 



^Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, XII, 1899. 

 2 Stray Feathers, II, 1874, pp. 1-324, with map. 



^See also a paper by Mr. G. S. Miller, jr., on the mammals collected l)y Dr. Abbott, 

 in these Proceedings, XXIV, 1902, pp. 751-795, with map. 





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