422 Notes. 



but also the following 26^ more or less well known specieS;, not 

 previovisly recorded from these localities. 

 25. — Accipiter virg-atus, Tern. 

 74^ — Scops penuata. Eorlg. 



111. — Caprimulgus spilocircus^ Grai/. 



133, — Ceyx tridactyla_, Lin. 



200. — Cucuhxs striatuS;, Drcq^iez. 



2.11. — Cbalcococcyx snaaragdinus^ JBlyth.. 



213. — Coccystes coromandus^ Lin. 



289. — Tchitrea affiais^ Kay. 



2.97. — Hemichelidon latirostris,, Raffies-. 



514. — Cyanecula caerulecula^ Pal. 



539; — Cisticola schcenicola^ J5;j. 



555. — Phyllopseuste fuscata, BhjiJi. 



593 ter. — Budytes cinereocapilla^ Savi. 

 ■ 595. — Limonidromus indicus^ Gm. 



599. — Corydalla Riehardi^ Vieill. 



720. — Citrinella pusilla^ Pal. 



723. — Euspiza am'eola^ Pal. 



858 bis. — Esacus magnirostris, Geoff, de St. Hel. 



904. — Gallicrex cristatns_, Lath. 



907. — Gallinula phffiuicura, Peim. 



910. — Ortygometra pygmsea^ Naum. 



929. — Bubulcus coromanduS;, Bodd. 



931. — Ardetta cinnamonea^ Giii. 



936 bis. — Goisakius melanolophus^ Raffl. 



951. — Nettapiis coromandelicus, Lin. 



952. — Deudroeygna arcuata, Cuv. 



Deducting, therefore, doubtful species^ and species which 

 though introduced, have entirely died out, the total number of 

 species as yet ascertained to occur in the Andaman and Nicobar 

 groups, only amounts to 175. 



Of Brackypodius fuscojlavescens and Ninox obscums, numerous 

 other specimens have been obtained, and no doubts as to the 

 validity of these species exist. CaiyopJiag.a pahmiboldes, has, Mr. 

 DeRoepstorfF assures me, been already described by Prof. Rein- 

 wardt of Copenhagen, under some other name, but by what 

 name or when, or where, he cannot remember. 



Ardetta pulcJira, I have now satisfied myself, by comparison 

 with a large series, is nothing but a freshly moulted and most 

 nnusually brig-htly coloured A. Sinensis. Sjnlofnis Davisoni 

 appears to be a good sjDccies. 



Amongst a collection of birds recently sent me by my 

 kind friend Mr. E. 11.- Blewittj I was surprised to find no less 



