306 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxv. 



The stomachs of three specimens contained the remains of lizards, 

 another had portions of a fowl, and one a small crab. The males 

 measure (in the liesh) 447.6 to 463.5 mm.; the females 457 and i70 

 mm. The Kamorta specimens are: Male, 470 mm.; female, 482.5 

 mm. The wings of the females measure 288 to 202 mm. ; the males, 

 2511.5 to 284.5 mm. 



Most of the specimens were shot in dense nmgle. 



SPILORNIS, species. 

 "Heard on South Andaman. None shot." 



HALI^ETUS LEUCOGASTER (Gmelin), 

 [Faico] lenco(jaxter C4melin, Syst. Nat., I, V\. 1, 1788, p. 257. 

 ''Common along the sea-coast everywhere [Nicobars]." No speci- 

 mens were preserved. 



ASTUR BUTLERI Gurney. 

 Astnr hutleri Gxtrney, Bull. Brit. Oni. Cluli, Vll, 1898, p. xxvii (Car Nicobar). 



Adult male. Length, 286 mm. *' Iris orange yellow; feet yellow, 

 claws black. Bill leaden, cere greenish. Stomach contained lizards." 



Adult female. Length, 817.5 mm. "Iris orange 3"ellow; cere black, 

 bill black, leaden beneath at base; feet yellow, claws black. Shot in 

 heavy forest, where it appears to be common." This species was 

 found only on Car Nicobar, "where it appeared to be pretty counuon 

 in a patch of heavy forest; not met with in the open ground or in the 

 scrub jungle. The place was a long way from the anchorage, and we 

 onh' visited it twice." The male is very indistinctl}' barred below, and 

 the middle and outermost pairs of tail feathers are entirely unbarred; 

 the three pairs of rectrices next to the central ones have three l)ars. 

 The female is much more prominently marked below, and the middle 

 pair of rectrices has a subterminal black bar; the next three pairs have 

 four bars. 



ASTUR OBSOLETUS, new species. 



.Typc.—Ai\n\t female. No. 17S448, U.S.N.M.; Katchal Island, 

 Nicobars, February IS, 1901; Dr. W. L. Abbott. General cofor of 

 upper parts (including middle and greater wing-coverts, secondaries, 

 and upper tail-coverts) gray\ paler ^ on crown, nape, sides of neck, 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts; lesser wing-coverts slate gray, becomwig 

 darker (slate color) on primary coverts and primaries, the latter being 

 black on the inner webs at the tips. Lores, an ill-defined stripe over 

 the eyes, throat, malar apex, thighs, abdomen, under wing- and tail- 

 coverts, and axillaries white; breast and sides white, with obsolete 

 bars of pale fawn color. Tail gray, narrowly tipped with white, the 

 middle and outer pairs of feathers without bands, the others with five 



^Hidgway'a Nomenclature of Colors, pi. ii, No. 8. ^Idem, No. 10. 



