No.iiSH. ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLAND BIRDS— RICHMOND. 289 



hetid and neck, and edges of wing feathers, olive green, the outer 

 we})s of basal half of tail feathers edged with the same color; tail and 

 wing feathers clove ])rown; cheeks and throat olive yellow; breast, 

 sides of body, thighs, and flanks, pale smoke gray; center of abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts, canary 3'ellow; lores and feathers under e^^e 

 black; a narrow ring of feathers round the eye, white; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries, white; inner webs of wing feathers white on 

 under surface. 



Length (of fresh specimen), 111 nun.; wing, 53; tail, 37.5; tarsus, 

 15; culmen, 11.5 (bill from gape, 15) mm. " Iris brown, bill and feet 

 plumbeous." 



The single individual obtained dili'crs from Z. anrelventrU in its 

 darker yellow throat, darker sides and upper parts, and uniformly 

 darker plumage. 



Family PYCNONOTID^E. 



IRENA PUELLA (Latham). 



[Cuvdrlax'] imella Latham, Index Urn., I, 1790, p. 171 (India). 



One specimen only, a male from .Henry Lawrence Island. Length 

 of the fresh bird, 254 mm. ""Iris red." It was also observed on 

 South Andaman. 



OTOCOMPSA EMERIA (Linnaeus). 

 [Motdcilkt] cmeria Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 187 (Benghala). 



'' Introduced. Common about the old convict settlement on 

 Kamorta; a few seen at Dring Harbor, same island." Two skins are 

 in tlie collection from this island, and a third from Nankauri. At the 

 Andamans it was "common on South and Little Andaman." Nine 

 specimens were collected, of which live are from the Cinque Islands. 



In plumage the birds from the Andamans and Nicobars are alike, 

 but differ from Indian and Mala}^ peninsula examples in being rather 

 darker and browner al)ove, with more extensive white tips on the 

 rectrices. The Andaman birds have somewhat larger bills than those 

 from other localities. The total length of birds in the flesh varies 

 from ITS nun. to 203 mm. 



lOLE NICOBARIENSIS (Moore). 



Hyjhvjictfx nicohariensis Mookb, in Horsfield and Moore, Catal. Birds Mns. East 

 India Co., I, 1854, p. 257 (Nicobars). 



"Common in the central group of islands, Tillanchong, Trinkut, 

 Nankauri, Kamorta, and Katchal. Not seen elsewhere. It occiision- 

 alh' congregates in assemljliesof 50 or more, in some large tree, where 

 they make a great chattering and uproar." 



Thirteen specimens. 



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