240 OX A COLLECTION OF BIRDS [1873. 



"S. Andaman: cf, iris red, bill greenish white, logs slate-blue; 2, iris lake. Ross 

 Island, c?." 

 ^^"'304'^' '^^'*^ ^"" males in full black plumage. The female peculiarly coloured and marked, and 



different from all peninsular Indian and Ceylon individuals I have had opportunities of examining. 

 They agree well with Naga-IIills, Thayetmyo, and Malaccan examples, which I assume to be 

 identical with Sumatran. 



17. CucuLUS MICKOPTERCS, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 137, "Himalayas." 

 "S.Andaman: cJ, December 31; $, January 9; not sexed, January 24, iris yellow, legs 



and feet yellow ochre, bill dark brown above, yellow below; 6, January 29, iris yellowish brown, 

 legs and feet yeUow, bill dark brown, yellow at base." 



These four examples belong to one species. Two 6 and one not sexed are, above deep 

 bluish slate-colour ; chin, throat, and uppet breast pale ash, with tawny brown fringe to some of 

 the feathers ; the remainder of lower surface broadly barred in all four alike. The fourth 

 example ( 2 ) differs by having the upper plumage of a rich brow^l, with traces of plumbeous on 

 the uropygium only, by the head being ashy brown, by the skin and throat only being ashy, 

 much tinged with tawny rufous, and by the rectiices having the characteristic dark brown 

 terminal band. That the first three are not in completely full plumage is shown by several of 

 the secondaries being brown, more or less tipped, fringed, and indented with pure white and with 

 pale ferruginous, and by the tawny fringings to the breast-feathers. The female (as sexed) also 

 exhibits signs of immaturity, many of the secondaries and of the nuchal feathers being banded or 

 othei-M"ise marked with pale ferruginous and tawny. Provisionally I refer these Andaman 

 individuals to C. micropto'us, Gould ; for a far more comprehensive examination and comparison 

 of the Cuckoos of the Indian region than I have had opportunities of making would be requisite 

 to determine the species with any degree of certainty. It has been suggested to me by my friend 

 Ibis, 1873, Mr. Blanford that the brown plumage of the example (sexed as a female) I have just described 

 is a phase of the young male plumage, and the ultimate adult di'ess of the female ; and there is 

 much evidence in favour of this view. 



Long. alaj. Caudae. 



6 7-00 6-50 



6 700 6-50 



\ 700 6-50 



$ 7-37 G-37 



18. Cextrococctx andamanexsis. (Plate XI. in orig.) 

 Centrojyus andamanensis, Tytler : Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 321. 

 " S. Andaman : iris red ; bill, legs, and feet black." 



19. Broderipus axdamaxexsis (Tytler): Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 326. no. 52, " Andamans." 



The series sent by Mr. Ramsay is so complete that I have thought it best to give the results 

 in the following Table. All the examples, with the exception of the one not sexed, were killed 

 in the month of Januai-j' ; and all are from the S. Andaman. 



p. 305. 



