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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Family TRERONIDJ^. 



OSMOTRERON CHLOROPTERA (Blyth) 



Asiat. 



Bengal, XIV, Pt. 2, 1845 (1846), 



Tr\_er<in'] chloroptera Blyth, Joun 

 p. 852 (Nicobars). 



"Common on all of the islands visited," 



There are eight specimens in the collection, from Trinkut, Nankauri, 

 Tillanchong-, Little and Great Nicobar. 



Length varies from 317.5 to 333 mm. in males, and 305 to 32-1: mm. 

 in females. "Feet dull purple; bill pale leaden, greenish at base and 

 on cere; iris, inner circle blue, outer one pink." 



OSMOTRERON CHLOROPTERA ANDAMANICA, new subspecies. 



TyjH. —K&ViM female, No. 178813, U.S.N.M.; Macpherson Strait, 

 South Andaman, January 15, 1901 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Similar to O. 

 chloro2)tera (Blyth), from the Nicobars, but rather smaller, colors 

 somewhat darker above and below; breast and sides deeper yellowish 

 green, and under tail-coverts more yellowish; the throat is yellower 

 than in O. cJiloroptera. Wing, 165 mm.; tail, 91; tarsus, 26; culmen, 

 20. Length, 292 mm. "Bill leaden, cere and base of bill greenish." 



Another female measures: AVing, 168 mm.; tail, 98; tarsus, 26.5; 

 culmen, 20. Length, 317.5 nun. 



Three females of O. eldoroptent measure: 



The new form is "common at South Andaman." 



CARPOPHAGA vENEA (Linnaeus). 

 lColumh^^^, .r?irtt Linn.eus, 8yst. Nat., 12th ed., Pt. 1, 1766, p. 283 (Moluccas). 

 One specimen, an adult male, from Rutland Island, Andamans. 

 "Observed at South Andaman, Cinque, and Little Andaman. A num- 

 ber seen at Barren Island. Iris crimson." Length, •±31.5 mm. 



CARPOPHAGA INSULARIS Blyth. 



C[arpophnga] hisitlari>i Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XXVII, 1858, p. 270 

 (Nicobars) ; a nomen nudum here. 

 ' ' Common on all these islands [Nicobars]. On Tillanchong and Trin- 

 kut they were remarkably tame; we easily shot them with the .32-cal. 

 auxiliary barrels. They, with the megapodes, formed our staple diet 

 in the Nicol )ars until wc loathed the sigh t of them. The iris is crimson. " 



