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Lord Walden on a Collection of Birds 



Alae. Cauda:. Tarsi. Eostr. 



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Jan. 25 ; Mantle yellowish olive- 

 green ; one tertiary slightly tip- 

 ped with yellow ; secondaries not 

 yellow-tipped, but washed with 

 olive ; middle rectrices at base 

 washed with olive-yellow ; quills 

 and rectrices more brown than 

 black ; crown and nape as in d. 



Young ; above olive-yellow ; be- 

 neath yellow and white ; feathers 

 brown-centred ; chin and throat 

 turning from white to yellow ; 

 under tail-coverts pure yellow ; 

 quills and rectrices pale brown 

 tinged with olive-yellow ; all the 

 tertiaries edged with albescent 

 yellow ; no coronal ring. Jan. 18. 



Younger ; Jan. 10 ; chin and throat 

 pure white, otherwise like/. 



Full golden plumage ; does not dif- 

 fer from cl. 



Jan. 25 ; like e, one or two terti- 

 aries being tipped ; "iris red." 



Jan. 27 ; exactly like i. 



Not sexed ; Dec. 27 ; young, like/, 

 but with indications of the black 

 coronal ring appearing behind 

 the eyes. 



The Andaman black-naped Oriole is readily distinguishble 

 by its almost totally black primaries and secondaries, from 

 i?. indicus, B. coronatus, B. chinensis, and B. celebensis. It 

 is also smaller than any of these species. Its affinities are 

 with B. acrorhynchus, B. frontalis, and B. formosus, which, 

 however, greatly exceed it in size. 



20. Irena puella (Lath.), Ind. Orn. i. p. 171, "India" 

 (1790). 



" S. Andaman." 



Four males and as many females were obtained, and they 

 perfectly agree with Malabar and Cambodian examples. 



21. Bkachypodius fuscoflavescens, Hume, Str. Feath. i. 

 p. 297, " Andamans" (1873). 



Brachypodius melanocephalus (Gni.), apud Ball, J. A. S.B. 

 1872, p. 281, nee Gm. 



