310 Spizaetus Kienerii. 



which I liave from Thyetmyo; but they may heardens of Boie, 

 which I have not seen. 



The Andaman pipit is, I think^ the true cervinus , Pallas, the 

 eastern form, disting-uished from Cecilii, Aud., vel. rufignlaris, 

 Brehm, by its smaller size and by the colour of its breast and 

 supercilinry stripe, which are pinker in the eastern and more rusty in 

 the western form; rosaceus of Hodg-son is at once distin- 

 guished from both by its yellow axillaries. 



Buchanga andamanensis is, I think, a very g'ood species with its 

 sharply carinated bill and its long bristle-like feathers springing 

 from the upper edge of the nares, on either side of the base of 

 the culmen. These are very conspicuous in fine specimens. 



(xrancalus Bobsoiii, is very distinct from our Indian birds, but 

 is it so from concretns, Hartlaub, 2xAfasciati.is, Vieillot, neither 

 of which I have seen ? 



The Munia, very common in the islands, may be leuconota, Tem. 

 It certainly is not the southern indian striata, L., with which 

 the latter has usually (but I think wrongly) been identified, as 

 the birds do not show any white shafting whatsoever to the fea- 

 thers of the upper back. 



The koils are very puzzling*. One of the females is coloured 

 like Ransomi. 



Of SpiziBtiis andamanensis, I can only say, that one sent me 

 might have sat for Gould^s figure of S. alboniger, Blyth, if only 

 it had a crest, which it hadu^t. 



The little tringas, sent are all true minnta (cf. supra p. 243.) 



A turnix sent appears to be a new species, close to onaculos'iis, 

 but with a perfectly white abdomen, but the specimen is an in- 

 difi"erent one, and I have only provisionally suggested for it the 

 name of albiventris. 



In conclusion I must remark that so far as I have investigated 

 it, the connection of the Avifauna of both the Andamans and 

 Nicobars, is rather with India and Sumatra^ than with India and 

 Malayana Proper. 



A. O. H. 



^pip^tUS Ikn^ii, Be Sparre. 

 The Rufous-bellied Hawk Eagle. 



Since I published the first part of my Rough Notes, several 

 specimens of this very handsome bird have come under my 

 observation, and I think that a full description of an adult with 

 dimensions recorded in the flesh can scarcely prove useless ; 



