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median ashy white band. Of the central tail feathers ot the 
above specimen of Davisoni the basal 3:5 inches (of which all 
but 1’-2 is hidden by the upper tail coverts) are a rather warm 
hair brown. Then comes a broad very dark brown bar of 1°-9, 
margined above on the inner web withan 0”1 broad wavy pure 
white line. Then afver the dark brown bar comes a broad (13) 
pale bar, white at its upper and lower margins, elsewhere clouded 
with pale brown. Then follows a sub-terminal 2-inch blackish 
brown bar, tipped for 0’-2 with pale brown, and then beyond that 
with pure white for 0"1. Add to this that Davisioni has 
apparently a larger bare lore space than pallidus. In this 
latter the frontal feathers descend on either side as low as 
a line joining the nostrils and the anterior angle of the eye. 
In Davisoni, they nowhere cross a line drawn from the cul- 
men of the cere, toa point about 015 above the upper mar- 
gin of the eye. This holds good ia every one of sixteen specimens 
now before me, one of which has apparently only just left the 
nest, while three are clearly old adults. I feel sure myself that 
the species (or sub-species) is a good one. 
39 sextus.—-Spilornis minimus, Hume. 
Mr. De. Roepstorff has procured three other specimens of this 
species, two in the very same locality where our former speci- 
mens were obtained, and one at Katchall. The first he has 
sexed asa female. It measured :—Length, 185; wing, 11"°5; 
tail from vent, 75; tarsus, 2”°75; bill from gape, straight 
to point, 17; the bird appears to be adult and is a perfect 
miniature of adult cheela, but entirely wants any barring on 
the throat and entire breast. 
The second is a nearly adult male, it is in the adult plumage, 
but is paler than the preceding, and has the scapulars and 
all the coverts tipped with white. It hasno trace of barring 
onthe throat or breast. It measures :—Length, 18-7; wing, 11-1 
tail from vent, 7’°6 ; tarsus, 2"°75; bill from gape, 1’-6, 
The third of these is sexed a female, it is in the first plum- 
age very similar to that of cheela. It measures :—Leneth, 19:25 ; 
wing, 113; tail, 8"3; tarsus, 27; bill from gape, 1°67. 
We have now five specimens, males and females of this interest- 
ing species in different stages of plumage, and these fully confirm 
my original brief, but I believe sufficient diagnosis (I, p. 464.) 
“* Resembles cheela, but is much paler; has the throat and breast 
entirely unbarred. Is the smallest of its genus, Wings vary- 
ing from 11":0 to 11"°75.” 
56.—Milvus govinda, Sykes. 
Notwithstanding the close look-out that has now been kept 
since our visit to the Andamans nearly three years ago, by three 
different collectors, no specimen of the common Kite appears yet 
to have been met, with. 
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