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but with an olivaceous tinge ; upper tail coverts dull white ; 

 quills and tail feathers pale hair brown, the outer webs of all 

 the quills suffused with a kind of olive grey, or in some 

 specimens olive brown, and a trace of the same on the tail 

 feathers, especially towards their bases • wing lining and lower 

 parts white • the sides and breast suffused with pale earthy brown, 

 and the chin and throat similarly but less strongly tinged ; 

 the shafts of the tail feathers on their lower surface, white; the 

 edge of the wing from the carpal joint, white. Some specimen 

 are paler and greyer, others darker and more olivaceous. 



We obtained a single specimen, differing markedly from those 

 already described, and which may prove a distinct species, or 

 may be the young of the present one. Its dimensions are very 

 similar to those of the three already given, but the wing is 

 only 3 - 25. 



The legs and feet were pale brown, so also was the bill. 



The whole upper surface is a somewhat olivaceous brown 

 without the least trace of grey about it even on the head where 

 all the others are grey, and on the nape it has a huge square 

 white patch, of which there is not the faintest trace in any of 

 the other specimens. The breast and sides are tinged with 

 reddish brown. This must, I fancy, be the young bird, but if it 

 prove distinct may stand as occipitalis. 



Davison tells us that : — u This bird is found on the different 

 islands of the Andaman group • but appears to be everywhere 

 scarce. I obtained one specimen on Strait Island, which had a 

 white nuchal spot, and I saw several others on the same island ; 

 another that I shot near Port Mouat, South Andaman, had no 

 nuchal spot, nor had two others that were shot on the Little 

 Cocos. It apparently prefers the forest, but the specimen I 

 obtained at Port Mouat, I shot in some very low mangrove 

 bushes on the edge of a creek. " 



269 bis.— Lalage terat, Bodd. (8.) 



We only obtained this species in the Nicobars, on Camorta 

 Island, but a specimen was, as already mentioned, (Stray Fea- 

 thers, 1873, p. 459) obtained at Acheen. 



The sexes do not appear to vary materially in size, though one 

 of our males is larger than any of the females. The following 

 are the dimensions of eight individuals of both sexes recorded 

 in the flesh : — 



Length, 6*75 to 7*25 ■ expanse, 10'75 to 11*25 ; wing, 3*4 to 

 3-6; tail, from vent, 2*75 to 312; tarsus, 0*65 to 0-82; bill, 

 from gape, 0'8 to - 82 • weight, - 62 to 0'9 ozs. 



