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The total length, in the tlcsh, ranges from 2lf) nun. to 22S.5 mm. 

 ""Iris, brown; feet, greenish brown; bill, olive green, with 3^ellow 

 edges." 



MICROTARSUS FUSCOFLAVESCENS (Hume). 

 BrarJii/jiodliisfusmfiaresn-iis Hume, Stray Feathers, I, 1H73, p. L'»7 (S. Andaman). 

 One adult male, from South Andaman. "Iris, blue; feet, leaden 

 blue; bill leaden, blackish at tip. Several seen." Length, 178 mm. 



Family DICRURID.E. 



DISSEMUROIDES ANDAMANENSIS (Beavan). 



BIcniruK imdtnii<ine)isi>-' "Tytler," Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 323 (Andanians). 



"Counuon on South and Little Andaman." 



Six specimens. Length ranges from 292 mm. to 343 nun. 



DISSEMURUS MALABARICUS (Scopoli). 



Muitrir<i]}ii {iiial<(harica) Scopoli, Del. Flor. Faun. Insub., II, 1786, p. 96 

 ("China"). 



"Common in Great and Little Nicoltar, less so in Katchal; none 

 seen elsewhere. Frequents lieavv forest, and is very easily ' called up." " 



Seven specimens, from the al)ove-mentioned islands. 



Hume has alread}^ referred' to the large crests of the Nicobar birds 

 (which are almost identical with examples from the Mergui archipel- 

 ago), as compared with those of the Anclamans. This feature is so 

 prominent that 1 do not hesitate to keep the two forms apart, but as 

 to the right of the Nicobar l)ird to l)ear the name mahi^xd-icii-s I am 

 not so certain. 



The above specimens A^ar}' from 428.5 unu. to 558.5 nmi. in total 

 length. 



DISSEMURUS MALABARICUS OTIOSUS, new name. 



"Observed on Lawrence Island and Little Andaman." 



Four skins, representing the above localities; those from Little 



Andaman are intermediate between this form and D. malahariciis^ but] 



are nmch nearer the former. 



Total length of birds in the flesh, ranges from 480 to 527 mm. This 



form, originally called Edollus ajjinls^'^ will require a new name, as 



there is an earlier E. affinis.^ 



1 Stray Feathers, II, 1874, p. 213. 



2 Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 323. 



=*Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XI, 1842, p. 174. 



