132 Letters, Aimouncements, t^c. 



26. Palfeornis erythrogenys. This name erythrogenys has been 

 applied to three species of the genus, but in two of them is 

 reduced to the rank of a synonym. I do not, therefore, per- 

 ceive why nicobaricus should be substituted for it in the present 

 instance. 



27. Palaornis affinis. I have no hesitation in considering this 

 to be a young female of the preceding species, just as P. nigri- 

 rostris, Hodgs., is of P.javanicus, or P.melanorhynchus, Sykes, 

 of P. columboides ; and of the only two specimens hitherto ob- 

 tained (so far as I know) of P. schisticeps, one has the upper 

 mandible coral-red, and the other black, as may be seen in Mr. 

 Gould's plate (B. As. pt. x.). 



31. Picus andamanensis I have seen in a collection made in 

 Sumatra, 



88. Tephrodornis grisola should probably stand as Hyloterpe 

 Philomela {Cf. P. Z S. 1863, p. 217, and Ibis, 1866, p. 368). 



45. Myiagra tytleri is very doubtfully distinct from the 

 widely diffused M. azurea. My impression is that I only saw 

 a female specimen from the Andamans. 



48. Turdus rufulus. I have seen many examples of this 

 species in Malacca collections. It is a very different bird from 

 T. javanicus. 



49. Oreocincla inframarginata is possibly the female of a 

 species in which the male is differently coloured, as in Turdulus 

 wardi and its allies {Cf. Ibis, 1866, p. 375). 



52. Oriolus andamanensis. I do not now believe this to be 

 O. horsfieldi, as I formerly suspected. It is most nearly akin to 

 O. macrurus of the Nicobars, but is rather smaller. 



59. Budytes citreola should stand as B. aureocapilla (Vieill.), 

 being very distinct from the true B. citreola of Northern Asia 

 [Cf. Ibis, 1865, pp. 48-50, and 1867, pp. 29, 30). 



62. Curvus andamanensis may be quite distinct fi*om C. cul- 

 minatus : but I have only received the latter from the Andamans ; 

 and as it is certainly common on both sides of the Bay of 

 Bengal, extending southwards as far as Malacca (where it co- 

 exists with C. enca), it is a species most likely to have found 

 its way to the Andamans. 



67. Temenuchus andamanensis. I am far from being as yet 



