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rowly tipped with brownish white, each of the succeeding 

 pairs more and more broadly tipped, and nearly the terminal 

 one-half of the external pair of this color. In some specimens 

 the whole external webs of these outer laterals are white. 



Davison remarks : — " This Myna is very abundant at the 

 Audamans, less so at the Nicobars. At the Andamans it is 

 usually seen in large flocks of about a hundred or more, feed- 

 ing in the paddy flats, or on the hill sides ; but it is also met 

 with in pairs, or in small parties in the forest and secondary 

 jungle ; when a flock is disturbed in the open, they usually fly 

 to some dry tree, or rock, or other bare object, and there all 

 huddle together so close that a dozen or more may be killed 

 at a shot ; at the Nicobars where they are less numerous I 

 have found them in pairs or in small parties, in the open 

 country, in the forest, and in gardens. I should mention that 

 at the ISTicobars I have only met with them at the settlement 

 of Camorta/' 



This bird is apparently a resident species, at any rate at the 

 Andamans, from whence we have specimens killed in each month 

 from December to September. 



I cannot feel at all certain that this species is indigenous in 

 the Nicobars. We never saw it anywhere except in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the settlement at Camorta, at which 

 station I understand that some 20 were let loose many years 

 ago having been brought down from Port Blair, where this 

 species swarms. Even at Camorta it is far from plentiful, and 

 it does not seem at present to extend to any of the closely 

 adjacent islands of Nancowry, Katchall or Trinkut, all of which 

 Davison very thoroughly worked or indeed even to the northern- 

 most portion of Camorta itself. 



689 quint.— Temenuclius dauricus, Pallas. (3.) 



Besides the two species of this genus, already mentioned, a 

 third and smaller one is certainly an occasional visitant to the 

 Nicobars, if not the Andamans also. Of this third species one 

 specimen, a male flew on board when we were at sea between 

 Car Nicobar and the Little Andamans during a sharp squall. 

 Mr. Davison met with a flock of 70 or 80 of this species on 

 Camorta, and succeeded in securing two birds which were both 

 females. All three specimens closely resemble each other, and so 

 far as plumage goes do not bear traces of being immature. At 

 the same time they correspond in so many, although not in all 

 respects, with what I find recorded of T. dauricus, Pallas ( = 

 malayensis, Eyton, Blyth, J. A. S., XV., 35, sturninus, Pal- 

 las, apicd Schrenck Vogel des Amur-landes, p. 329, fig. XI 



