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coloured and marked like the plumage of the head and nape, but the brown transverse bands are 

 broader and fewer ; scapulars the same, but a few more or less pure white, mottled towards the 

 tip with the prevailing tints ; ear-coverts and cheeks principally white, with brown and ruddy 

 fulvous markings ; throat-feathers albescent, with one or more narrow brown cross bands ; a 

 half-collar below the throat of feathers marked and coloured like those of the nape ; breast- 

 feathers tipped with brown, a subterminal band of pale fulvous, then a brown band followed by 

 a much broader pure white band ; abdominal feathers white, tipped with an irregular ocellated 

 mark centred with pale rusty fulvous and encircled with brown, then a broad white band with 

 a basal and narrower brown band ; in many of the abdominal feathers the ocellated markings are 

 replaced by an irregular cross band of mixed fulvous and brown ; under tail-coverts white, with 

 faint subterminal fulvous-brown bands ; tarsus clothed with white feathers, faintly barred with 

 pale brown ; ground-colour of the primaries and secondaries brown, each quill traversed by three 

 or more pale rufo-fulvous narrow bands more or less complete, the brown intervals towards the 

 apices of the primaries and on their outer webs much freckled with rufo-fulvous ; on the outer 

 web of the second, third, and fourth primaries the pale rufo-fulvous bands change to fulvous 

 white or pure white ; under mng-coverts greyish white ; median rectrices marked and coloured 

 like the apices of the primaries, lateral with clear rufo-fulvous bands running through, all 

 tipped, like the median shoulder-edge, white. Tarsi feathered to within an eighth of an inch 

 of the base of the toes ; fourth and fifth quills equal, third slightly longer than sixth. 



Wing 4-75 inches, tail 2'37, tarsus I'O, middle toe with nail 1'12, biU from nostril (in a 

 straight line) 0"65. 



Two examples of this small plain-coloured Scops Owl were obtained near Port Blair, South 

 Andaman, by Captain E. Wimberley. 



This, 1874, On a further Collection of Birds made hy Lieut. Eobert Wardlaw Ramsay, F.Z.S., in the Andaman 

 P- ^-''- ' Islands. By Arthur, Viscount Walden, P.Z.S., F.R.S. [From ' The Ibis,' April 1874, 



Plates IV.-VI. in. orig.] 



Since publishing my notes (Ibis, 1873, pp. 296-321)* on a collection of birds made in the 

 Andamans by Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay, that gentleman has kindly sent to me a large number 

 of specimens from the same locality, the fruits of about two months' indefatigable exertion. They 

 include thirty-nine species additional to those contained in his first consignment. These I propose 

 to notice in the following pages, while in a future niimber of ' The Ibis ' I hope to be able 

 to lay before its readers a complete list of the species known to inhabit the Andaman archipelago, 

 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 



• [Jniea, pp. 235-251.— Ed.] 



