Birds from the Andaman Islands. 143 



identifications, to regard them as belonging to a distinct 

 species. The stnicture and dimensions of all are reconcilable 

 with the suggestion that they belong to one species. Wing 

 325 inches ; tail 3. 



The generic title Hylocharis, as founded on this bird^ or at 

 least on the Javan form, has been by Bonaparte (/. c.) attri- 

 buted to Boie, with the date 1827. So also has the specific 

 title philomela. I have failed to find any proof in sup- 

 port of this. Hylocharis appears to have been first used by 

 Boie, but for a group of the Trochilidae (Isis, 1831, p. 546). 

 S. Miiller (/. c.) seems to be the first who used the generic 

 title Hylocharis for this Shrike ; and as it had been previously 

 employed by Boie, Dr. Cabanis (/. c.) altered it to Hyloterpe. 

 Mr. G. R. Gray (/. c.) retains the title both among the Shrikes 

 and the Humming-birds, and credits Dr. Cabanis with the 

 authorship of Hylocharis as well as Hyloterpe, an evident 

 misreading of the passage in the ^ Archiv.' 



85. ZosTEROPs PALPEBROSA (Tcmm.), PL Col. 293. fig. 3, 

 '^Bengale'^ (1824). 



" S. Andaman : March 3, 29, $ , iris bright red-brown, bill 

 above dark horn-colour, below whitish, legs greenish grey; 

 April 27, 6 , iris light reddish brow^n, bill slaty brown, legs 

 slaty green ; May 5, S ." 



The male obtained in May closely resembles Maunblioom 

 examples ; but the upper plumage has not quite so yellow a 

 tinge, and the frontal feathers are not perhaps as decidedly 

 bright yellow% The dimensions are alike, save those of the 

 bill, which considerably exceed in length that of the conti- 

 nental species. The other examples are darker above, closely 

 resembling the Neilgherry race, but as dark as in Z. lateralis. 

 In them the bill also exceeds in length that of the Maun- 

 bhoom and other Indian examples. 



86. Emberiza pusilla, Pallas, Reise Buss, Reichs, iii. 

 p. 697. no. 20, "Dauria^^ (1776). 



Emberiza sordida, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 1844, p. 958, 

 " Nipaul,^' $ . 



Ocyris oiiiops, Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 35, j . 



