ANDAMAN AND NWOBAll ISLAND BIRDS-RWHMOND. 2^)5 



Family MUSCICAPID^E. 



MUSCITREA GRISOLA (Blyth). 

 Tin,hrudorrm-\ grisola Bi.vt.i. Journ. A.. Soc. Bengal, XII, Pt. 1, 1843, p. 180* 

 (near Calcutta). 

 Six specimens, from Henry Lawrence Island, Barren Island. South 

 Andaman, and Cintiue Islands. 



ALSEONAX LATIROSTRIS (Raffles). 

 Mu^clcapa latiro^tris Kaffles, Trann. Linn. 8oc. Lend., XIII, Pt. 2, 1822, p. :!12 

 (Sumatra). 

 Five specimens, from South Andaman, Barren, Rutland, and Cin<iue 



islands. 



TCHITREA NICOBARICA (Dates). 



Tcrpsiphone nwobarica Gates, Fauna Brit. In<:ia (P.inls), 11, 1890, p. 48 (Anda- 

 mans and Nicobars). 



-Not met with in Car Nicobar or Tillanchono-, but fairly connnon 

 in all the other islands. Adult males, white ones, seen only in (Ireat 

 and Little Nicobar.'' 



Eleven specimens, mainlv from Katchal; one specimen each from 

 Kamorta Nankauri, and 1^-inkut, and two males in white plumage 

 from Great Nicobar. The latter dititer from the corresponding phase 

 of T. affini^ only in the central tail feathers, which are much broader 

 near the tips. The young males resem])le the female, lacking the 

 glossy blue-black throat and sides of head of older birdt^. 



The white males from Great Nicol)ar each measure 451 nun. in total 

 leno-th; the fresh wlors, as stated on the labels, are: ''Iris, dark 

 brown: orbital skin, blue; bill, blue, tip and commissure, black; feet, 



leaden blue." . „ ,. 



A Katchal female has a total length of ^m mm.; another from the 



same island measures 186.5 mm. 



RHINOMYIAS NICOBARICA, new species. 



2^..,.._A<lult male. No. 1T8T1<», U.S.N.M.; Pulo Kunyi, Great 

 Nicobar, March 20, 1901; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Top of head, l>ack, 

 scapulars, and rump, brown (between liister and raw umber), brightest 

 „n the back; upper tail-coverts and tail burnt umber; wings dark 

 brown, the feathers edged with the color of the back, lighter on the 

 primaries and burnt umber on the secondaries. Lores, and feathers 

 about eyes, buti'; cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of neck similar to the 

 crown "but lighter, the ear-coverts with light shaft streaks; throat 

 and abdomeiC white; breast with a narrow band of wood brown 

 (feathers of the breast l)uffy white, edged with wood brown); sides 

 and Hanks wood brown, the thighs drab; under tail-coverts, axdlars 



