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black occipital horse shoe ; the entire lower parts, excluding the 

 lower tail coverts already described, are white, or yellowish white, 

 each feather, with a brown, central, shaft streak, linear on the 

 chin and throat, somewhat broader elsewhere. The visible por- 

 tion of lesser and median coverts like the back; the quills 

 and the greater coverts pale, dull, hair brown ; earlier primaries 

 margined on the outer webs with brownish white; later primaries 

 and secondaries, similarity but more broadly margined with dull, 

 pale, olive yellow ; and tertiaries with the entire outer webs of 

 this color. Greater coverts margined and tipped with a brighter 

 yellow, those of the primaries narrowly, of the secondaries 

 more broadly. Tail feathers brownish olive yellow, the four 

 lateral pairs tipped, almost exclusively, on the inner webs, for a 

 breadth of from a quarter to one inch, with pure, pale yellow, and 

 generally with a rather conspicuous brown spot just above this 

 tipping. The bills in the young are in some almost blackish 

 horny, in others dingy pink. 



In what I take to be quite the youngest birds, the chin and 

 throat are entirely streakless, somewhat fulvescent, white. There 

 is scarcely a trace of the nuchal band, and both on the head and 

 back are dim traces of brown striations. By August many of 

 the birds are entirely pale yellow below, with only a few, narrow 

 brown shaft stripes, and the nuchal band has become fairly 

 well marked ; but some birds probably hatched later, are no 

 further advanced than this in October. 



Davison remarks : — " This species is tolerably abundant at 

 Mount Harriet and other well-wooded places in the vicinity of 

 Port Blair. I did not observe it either on the Cccos or other 

 islands of the Andaman group that I visited. In habits it is very 

 similar to the other members of the genus to which it belongs, but 

 is perhaps a trifle more shy than its congener O. macrourus of the 

 Nicobars, keeping generally to the forest among the higher trees, 

 and coming into gardens, only when these have large trees growing 

 in them. I should say that the breeding season extended from 

 October to at least April, as I have shot full-fledged young birds 

 from December to March, and Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay, to 

 my knowledge, obtained a fledgling at Mount Harriet, South 

 Andaman, in April/'' 



471 quat.— Oriolus macrourus, Blyth. (48.) 



This species is at once distinguished from indicus by its larger 

 size, much greater extent of yellow on the tail feathers, and by 

 the entire absence of yellow on the exterior webs of the secon- 

 daries and tertiaries. It is one of the very finest members of 



