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what doubtful ; but that it is identical with leucoceps of 

 Swainson, figured as stolidus by Gould (B. of Aust. VII, pi. 34) 

 is clear. 



Dr. Jerdon's description does not correspond over well with 

 birds obtained from the Andamaus, whereas the adults there 

 procured, of which there were several specimens in Colonel 

 Tytler's collection, are accurately pourtrayed in Gould's figure and 

 in the following- brief description by the same writer : — 



" Upper and under surface chocolate brown ; crown of the 

 head pale grey, gradually blending with the brown of the 

 upper surface ; primaries and tail brownish black ; a spot of 

 black immediately before and above the anterior angle of the 

 eye ; irides brown ; bill black ; legs and feet dull brownish 

 red ; webs dusky ; claws black.' - ' 



Birds from the Bay of Bengal are perhaps more of a hair 

 brown than a chocolate brown ; the tails are scarcely darker than 

 the rest of the body, and the primaries are only deep hair brown ; 

 the eyelashes are white. In not quite adult birds only the 

 forehead and the sides of the crown are greyish white. 



In a younger stage still the forehead, crown, occiput, and 

 lores are brown, mottled with pale brown ; the chin and throat 

 are mottled with greyish white ; centre of the abdomen white; 

 flanks, veut feathers and lower tail coverts are greyish white ; 

 wing lining pale French grey; edge of the wing, white; the 

 rest of the plumage darker brown than in the adult; most of 

 the tertiaries are tipped with yellowish white, and most of the 

 scapulars and many of the feathers of the back and coverts 

 excessively narrowly tipped with dingy white ; feet, clingy 

 olive; the bills of the adults are stouter and longer than 

 those of the young ones, and the males appear to be slightly 

 larger than the females. The dimensions of a fine adult male 

 were as follows : — 



Length, 15 ; wing, 11-5; tail, 6'5 ; bill, at front, 1-7; height, 

 at front, 03; tarsus, 0"95 ; mid toe and claw, 1-6. A young male, 

 with the same length of wing, had the bill only 1*45 at front 

 with a height of 025. These birds frequently alight on the 

 rigging of vessels between Ceylon and the Sandheads, and are, 

 as is well known, so sluggish that they can be caught with the 

 hand when thus perched. 



994.— Anous senex, Leach. (0.) 



We did not obtain specimens at the Andamans, but I have 

 examined specimens from the Bay of Bengal, and I know of 

 one specimen at any rate having been shot at Port Blair. 



