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Only three specimens of this bird were obtained, though we 

 probably saw fifty during our trip. An adult male shot on 

 South Andaman, 25th May ; another adult male shot on Treis 

 Island, Nicobars, 15th March; and an immature female also* 

 shot on Treis Island on the same day. 



The following are the dimensions taken in the flesh : — 



U) Adult male, S. Andaman L 26 ; Ex. 69 ;W. 21; T. fr.vent 9'5 ; Tars. 3-4;Bfr. g.2'12; wg.4-51ba. 

 (ii) Do. do. Treis I. „ 26 ;„72-5; ,,21; „ 9; „ 325 ; „ 2 ; „ 4-2& 



(iii) Immature female do. „ 30'5; ,,73-75; „ 23 7 ; ,, 12'5 ; „ 3 # 0; „ 2'25 ; „ 



Legs and feet of No. (i) pale, clay white ; claws black ; bill 

 horny ; upper mandible darker ; cere, &c, plumbeous ; irides 

 umber brown. 



54.— Circus aeruginosas, Lin. (0.) 



Davison saw a pair of young birds of this species hawking over 

 the paddy flats at Aberdeen during the first week in May, but 

 failed to get a shot. It is apparently rare even in the 

 neighbourhood of Port Blair, and we none of us ever saw 

 it elsewhere during our peregrinations. 



56.— Milvus govinda, Syhes (0.) 



We none of us ever met with this species in any one of the 

 islands of the Bay of Bengal, nor did Davison, during his 

 five months' residence in the Andamans and Nicobars, ever see 

 or hear of it. I include the species, because Tytler says that 

 two specimens were actually shot on Viper Island before he left, 

 the only ones he ever saw there. These must, however, have 

 come down with some vessel just as Davison recently remarked 

 that a single kite accompanied the P. and 0. Company's Vessel 

 Mirzapoor the whole way from Madras to Calcutta. Although 

 I include this species, specimens having actually been shot at 

 the Andamans, I scarcely reckon it as belonging to their 

 Avifauna. 



65 bis. — Syrnium seloputo, Horsf. (0.) 



There is really no sufficient evidence for including this species 

 in the fauna of either the Andaman s or the Nicobars. As regards 

 the former, all Tytler could say was that he " observed a large 

 owl once fly over Ross Island, but never had an opportunity of 

 observing it again." He had not himself the least idea what it 

 might be. As regards the latter, Blyth says : — " Captain Lewis 

 informed me of a very beautiful owl which he obtained at the 

 Nicobars, but the specimen was lost through the carelessness of a 

 servant. He identified it positively from a Malayan specimen 

 belonging to Dr. Cantor/' Captain Lewis,, as we all know, is 



