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XVII. — On a further Collection of Birds made by Lieutenant 

 Robert Wardlaw Ramsay, F.Z.S., in the Andaman Islands. 

 By Arthur, Viscount Walden, P.Z.S., F.R.S. 



(Plates IV.-VI.) 



Since publishing my notes'^ on a collection of birds made in 

 the Andamans by Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay, that gentle- 

 man has kindly sent to me a large number of specimens from 

 the same locality, the fruits of about two months' indefati- 

 gable exertion. They include thirty-nine species additional 

 to those contained in his first consignment. These I propose 

 to notice in the followmg pages, while in a future number of 

 ^ The Ibis ' I hope to be able to lay before its readers a com- 

 plete list of the species known to inhabit the Andaman archi- 

 pelago, together with some further remarks on some of the 

 species mentioned in my former paper. 



Besides the rich series of specimens collected by Lieutenant 

 Wardlaw Ramsay, I have had the advantage of being able to 

 examine a valuable collection made in the same islands by 

 Captain Wimberley. This gentleman has sent home the first 

 specimens known in Europe of Ninox afinis, Tytler, an ex- 

 cellent species ; and he has also forwarded a numerous series 

 of Spilornis elgini, which leaves no doubt of the validity 

 of that species as distinguished from S. bacha — an opinion 

 in which I believe I am entitled to say that Mr. J. H. Gurney 

 concurs. 



63. LiMNAETUs ANDAMANENSis (Tytler), p. A. S. B. 1865, 

 p. 112, "Port Blair, Andamans." 



Spizaetus andamanensis, Tytler : Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 315, 

 no. 6; Hume, Scrap Book, p. 203 (1869). 



" S. Andaman, April 15 : 6, bill slaty horn-colour; cere 

 greenish ; iris amber ; toes dirty yellow." 



Lower surface from chin to vent pure white, the terminal 

 portion of most of the feathers being centred with rich brown, 



* Ibis, 1873, pp. 290^21. 



