286 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE AVI-FAUNA 
My impression is that either we must unite Mr. Sharpe’s two 
species lugubris and scutulata, or that we shall have to divide 
them into several more species. (1) one for the plains of 
Central and Northern India, the true lugudris, (2) one for 
Ceylon, Travancore, and the Straits, hirsutus, Tem, which, if 
Sumatran specimens prove identical, must stand as scutulata, 
(3) one for Nipaland the Eastern Himalayas, nipalensis, (4) one 
for Tipperah, Cachar, and other neighbouring localities eastward, 
a very large dark form only provisionally designated by me as 
innominata, and (5) one for Pegu and Tenasserim intermediate 
between this last and nipalensis with which the Nicobar birds 
closely correspond. JI shall deal, however, with this question 
more fully hereafter, at present T merely wish it to be under- 
stood that the Cachar birds (/ innominuta, sp. nov.) belong to 
a very large dark race, the upper surface a nearly uniform deep 
chocolate brown with the head if anything darker than the 
rest of the body—while those from the Nicobars like those 
from Pegu and Tenasserim, are intermediate in size and color 
between the Cachar form and nipalensis, Hodgs. 
I am quite ready to make only one species ‘of the lot, but if 
lugubris is to be separated, so also must be, I think, the other 
races above indicated. 
81 bis.—Ninowx affinis, Tytler. 
I am afraid Mr. Sharpe’s diagnosis of this species, “ axillaries 
uniform orange chestnut, breast spots chestnut, wing 6'°65,” will 
scarcely hold good. 
The axillaries are not always uniform, they are sometimes 
banded with brown, and are pale buff instead of being orange 
chestnut ; the breast spots are not always chestnut, in one speci- 
men they are ferruginous buff, precisely the same color as in 
specimens of other Indian and Malayan Ninoz. Lastly, the wing 
in the male is certainly sometimes as large 6"°9, for I have 
one epee of this size, and the wings ‘of the females run 
to 7’ 4 and7"6, and, I entertain no doubt that Mr. Shar pe’s 
N. scutulata from the Nicobars (Cat. Vol. II, p. 159,) a female 
with the wing 7’:4 belonged really to the present species. 
82 ter.—Hirundo andamanensis, Tytler. 
Nothiag has yet been seen of this supposed species, which 
I suspect will prove to be nothing but the immature male of 
the common Eastern Chimney Swallow. 
82 quat.—Hirundo gutturalis, Scop. 
Under which name, and not H. rustica, as given in my first 
paper, the Chimney Swallow so common at the Andamans should 
probably stand. 
96.—Chetura indica, Hume. 
