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more orange in others, and the tip of the lower mandible is 

 always brownish. 



One point remains to be settled in regard to this species ; is 

 it, or is it not Alseonax terricolor of Hodgson ? I cannot 

 decide this satisfactorily from Hodgson's drawings ; but perhaps 

 Mr. Sharpe will examine Mr. Hodgson's original specimen now 

 in the British Museum, aud let us know. 



Davison tells us that : — '"'This little flycatcher is very rare 

 about the Andamans ; duriDg my stay I only twice saw it on 

 South Andaman and only shot one specimen on the Great Coco. 

 The two specimens I saw at the Andamans were both in an 

 open piece of ground between the mangrove swamp and the 

 forest; they were very shy, and kept flying from tree to tree ; the 

 specimen I obtained on the Great Cocos I found sitting on a low 

 branch just within the belt of cocoanuts. I do not know if it 

 is a permanent resident. I did not observe it at the Nicobars/' 



345 Us.— Brachyurus moluccensis, Mull (0.) 



At Galatea Bay, at the extreme south of the Great Nicobar, 

 I saw a Pitta with a great deal of blue about it, which I helieve 

 to have belonged to this species, which is so common in suitable 

 localities throughout British Burmah. Several others of the 

 party also saw Pittas, but owing to the thickness of the jungle, 

 the heavy rain, and other contretemps, no one succeeded in 

 obtaining a specimen. We caunot, therefore, be sure of the spe- 

 cies, it may prove to be a new one altogether, but one species 

 of ground thrush must certainly be included in our list. 



351.— Cyanocincla cyana, Lin. (0.) 



This may or may not be more correctly designated as P. 

 pandoo, Sykes. I cannot obtain materials for deciding whe- 

 ther the Indian birds are specifically distinct from the Euro- 

 pean. The bird that occurs in the Andamans is the same as 

 the Indian. Blyth notices the receipt of a specimen from the 

 Andamans, and Von Pelzeln tells us that a young male of this spe- 

 cies was killed on the 24th February at Car Nicobar, probably, as 

 he remarks, merely a bird of passage, the island not apparently 

 being one suitable to the habits of this species. We never 

 obtained a specimen or indeed met with the bird, but one was 

 killed on Boss Island whilst Davison was there, which was 

 identical with Indian specimens, and with no trace of rufous 

 about the veut or abdomen. 



