470 Novelties. — Capnmuigus andamanicus. 



The scapulars, too, seem to be g-enerally less barred, and more 

 spotted than is usually the case in Indian specimens. 



Generally, the birds have a very dijSerent appearance, and I 

 think would be separated by any one who examined a series of 

 both ; but no mere description will sufficiently explain this differ- 

 ence, and the very marked difference in size is the character 

 that must be first relied on for separating the species. 



Captain Fielden remarked that this owl which he identified 

 with brama was very common at Thayetmyo. 



Mr. Gates who likewise considered the bird to be hrama, re- 

 marks, that it is '' very common along- the banks of the Irra- 

 waddy, for ten or twenty miles inland. Further inland, every 

 little owlet which pops out in the evening is sure to be cucu- 

 loides, which I fancy replaces it altogether towards the Pegu 

 Hills. Burmese specimens are much darker above than one 

 which I have from Kutch." 



Caprimulgus andamanicus, iVov. S^, 



{)/ the same size and type as atripennis, Jerd., but much darker ; wing 

 coverts, more conspicuously spotted with rich rufous buff ; wing spot, 

 very small, and on the inner webs of the first three primaries only. 

 Head with several stripes of black dashes. 



This is the bird that I erroneously noticed as Caprimnlgus 

 atripennis, Jerd. It belongs to the same group as macrountSy 

 and the latter species, that is to say the tarsi are feathered, and 

 in the male the tips of the two exterior tail feathers on either 

 side only are white. It is about the same size as atripennis, the 

 wing in the male measuring only 7 inches. It is distinguished 

 from both macroiinis and atripennis^ with good specimens of 

 which from Malayana and Ceylon, I have compared it, by 

 its darker tint, by the bright rufous tips of the median, and 

 larger wing coverts, by the primary wing spot, which is very 

 small, occurring on the inner webs of only the first three instead 

 of the first four primaries, and by the head presenting a series 

 of more or less parallel stripes of black dashes as in Kelaarti and 

 indicus instead ,of a single one, or nearly a single one, as iu 

 atripennis and macrounis. 



We only once met with this species, of which we shot a single 

 specimen, a male, on Jolly Boj'^s, an island in Macpherson's 

 Straits, at the south of the South Andaman, 



Davison remarks, '^ I myself never saw this species in the 

 vicinity of Port Blair, though I frequently heard its note 



