280 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE AVI-FAUNA 
24,.—Accipiter nisus, Lin. 
The occurrence of the European Sparrow Hawk at the Anda- 
mans, where a fine female, which he has just sent me, was killed 
in October, by Captain Wimberley, is worthy of note. This spe- 
cies has not as yet been recorded from Tenasserim, and its occur- 
rence in Burmah at all rests solely on Captain Fielden’s belief 
that a bird he shot some years ago at Thayetmyo was Accipiter 
nisus. It occurs eastward as far as China, southwards to Ceylon, 
but does not extend its wanderings, as far as is yet known, to 
Malayana or the Archipelago—and the South Andaman is the 
most south-easterly point from which it has been as yet recorded. 
25.—Accipiter virgatus, Temm. 
Three more specimens of this species, all young birds of 
the year, and killed in the South Andaman in August and Sept- 
ember, were sent me by Captain Wimberley. In all (see Vol. 
II, p. 141) the fourth quill is decidedly longer than the fifth. 
The birds, two females and one male, are small and more 
brightly tinged with rufous than is usualin the case of conti- 
nental exemples. 
3 Length, 10”°75 Wing, 5”8; Tarsus, 1”8 Tail, 4:5. 
3 * 13” 5 Loni a ES a ray 6.0. 
5 2 12-9 sf le. Wl ge So On ks eae 
34 bis.— Spizaetus andamanensis, Tytler. 
This species is not so rare as I fancied; I have now received 
other specimens in young and intermediate stages of plumage. 
Two males measured :—Length, 22”5—22’75; wing, 
14”—14":2; tail from vent, 9°°75—9’°5; tarsus, 3’°5—3’'6; bill 
from gape 18. 
One of these, which from analogy I take to be a young bird, 
has the entire head and neck all round and entire lower sur- 
face white with a faint creamy tinge on the head and neck ; 
the ear coverts unstreaked white; no mandibular stripe; the 
faintest possible trace of a throat stripe; the breast feathers 
with a very few linear lanceolate dark brown shaft stripes. 
Feathers of the centre of the crown and of the -road nu- 
chal sub-crest, as also the feathers of the nape below this crest 
and the sides of the basal portion of the neck, with dark 
brown oval sub-terminal shaft spots. Forehead and sides of 
the crown and the feathers immediately beyond the ear coverts, 
with dark shaft stripes ; mantle deep wood brown, the feathers 
margined paler; the tail has a broad sub-terminal dark brown 
band, with a narrow white tipping, and there are six well-mark- 
ed, nearly equidistant, half inch broad, dark brown bands, on a 
somewhat olive brown ground, above this. 
Iu the next stage the dark shaft spots on the head and 
nape are more numerous and more developed: the ear coverts 
and cheeks and sides of the throat are striped with dark brown; 
