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PAL.EORNIS TYTLERI Hume. 

 Plalxorms} tytleri Hume, Stray Feathers, II, 1874, p. 454 (Andamans). 

 "Common on Lawrence Island and South Andaman." 

 Three specimens from the above islands. Two females measured 

 301). 5 and 343 mm. in the Hesh; a male, 406.5 mm. 



"Iris: Inner circle green, outer circle yellow; feet green; cere green; 

 upper mandible red, lower black." 



LORICULUS VERNALIS (Sparrman). 

 Ps;7/ac».s rt'cnfflfe Spakrman, Mus. Carls., Pt. 2, 1787, No. XXIX. 

 ''None shot. Seen and heard everywhere in the Nicobors." 



Family BUBONID^. 



NINOX SCUTULATA (Raffles). 



Slrix scnluldla Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud., XIII, Pt. 2, 1822, p. 280 

 (Sumatra). 



Three specimens. 



A male from Car Nicobar measures 379.5 mm. It has a wing 206 

 mm. in length. Hume records a male from the same island with a 

 wing measurement of 213.5 mm., and a total length of 286 nun. 



From Katchal we have a female measuring 286 mm., with a wing- 

 barely 203 nun. Both of the above birds resemble in color those of 

 India. 



A male from Little Nicobar is not only smaller, but differs very 

 much in color from the others. There is a fulvous suffusion of the 

 lower surface, the white bars of the sides and abdomen and the white 

 streaks on the breast being almost entirely obscured. The under tail- 

 coverts are white, spotted, and barred with brown. In total length 

 this specimen measures 273 mm.; the other dimensions are: Wing, 

 198; tail, 118; tarsus, 30; culmen, 20 mm. In this individual the iris 

 was deep yellow ; feet pale yellow. 



The stomachs of two of the specimens contained beetles. 



Family FALCONID.E. ' 



SPILORNIS KLOSSI, new species. 



7}//>.'.— Adult male. No. 178429, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Kunyi, Great 

 Nicobar, March 20, 1901; Dr. W. L. Abbott. General color above, 

 including greater wing-coverts, secondaries, and tertiaries, drab,^ with 

 a slight coppery sheen in certain lights, some of the feathers (espe- 

 cially of the secondaries, tertiaries, and greater wing-coverts) with nar- 

 row white tips; nape and sides of neck Isabella color;" top of head, 



^Kidgway's Nomenclature of Colors, pi. iir. ^Idem, pi. iii. 



