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tal crest, almost black ; the featbei's of the back^ scapu- 

 lars, and tertiaries marg-inecl with golden buff. Quills, winglet, 

 primar}^ g-reater coverts, tail, black ; rest of coverts (excluding 

 those previously mentioned, as rufous) golden buff. Edge of 

 wing and entire wing lining, white. Sides of head and neck, 

 golden buff. Chin, front of throat, and neck, pure white, with 

 a narrow central bright buff streak. Breast, pale buff, streaked 

 with brigliter and deeper buff. A broad band of deep brown 

 feathers, narrowly margined with buff, beginning- at the sides of 

 the breast traverses the upper part of the abdomen, but is parti- 

 ally concealed by the overlapping- of the breast feathers. Rest 

 of abdomen, pale buff; vent and lower tail coverts, huffy white. 

 Legs, feet, and bill apparently pure yellow. If distinct, which 

 I cannot well believe, let it stand as pukhra, nobis. \ 



^. mongolicus, of which Mr. Ball was doubtful, is common at 

 the Andamans, and Calmfias nicobaricus, in regard to the occur- 

 rence of which at the Cocos, he expressed surprise, considering it 

 essentially a Nicobarian bird, was also met with. 



As regards the Andaman Otocompsa, I should say it was not 

 the true jocosa, L., which is a Chinese bird, but the Bengal and 

 Oudh emeiia, Shaw, which as Hodgson's drawings show is his 

 pyrrhotis. At the same time it is to be noted that the Andaman 

 bird has the ear tuft and the crest somewhat shorter, and is a 

 somewhat smaller bird. However, after comparing some thirty 

 specimens from the islands with a similar number from Calcutta, 

 Dacca, the Terai, the Western Doars, Oudh, &c., I see no grounds 

 for separating them. The southern form fuscicaudata, Gould, 

 distinguished at once by the absence of white tippings to the 

 lateral tail feathers, reaches as far North and West as Mount Aboo. 



There is a nearly allied species from Assam, monticola, McClell., 

 P. Z. S., 1839, p. 160, which differs in having a scarlet ring 

 about the eye, but no red tuft beneath this org-an. Mr. Blyth 

 says, Ibis, 1867, p. 8, that monticola differs from emeriti, in 

 having a shorter crimson ear tuft of a much deeper colour and 

 the feathers composing it are more rigid and wiry, but 

 Assam specimens agree with McClelland's description, have red 

 round the eye, and no regular tuft. 



I think it not impossible thati/. kicionensis has been confound- 

 ed with crisfatus by authors, who have given the latter from 

 the Andamans. It may very likely occur there, but Tytler's 

 specimen, the only one I ever saw of his from the Andamans, 

 was a young lucionensis. 



The Fericrocoii that I have received from the Andamans were 

 eertainlj'- not sjjeciosus ; I identified them with elegans, McClel- 

 land, P. Z* S., 1839, p. 156, a bird more of the flammeus type. 



