288 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE AVI-FAUNA 
male. In one or two females there is just the faintest trace of 
a reddish tinge at the base of the ear coverts. No single speci- 
men, old or young, has either red cheeks or red ear coverts. 
This being so, the species caunot be asiatica, and we must adopt 
Lord Walden’s name of Beavani (olim rufigastra). See, for 
further remarks on the continental representatives of this 
species, my Travancore paper. 
199.—Cuculus canorus, Lin. 
I have received a specimen of a Cuckoo, killed at the Anda- 
mans on the 16th November, which is precisely similar to a 
great number of others that I have obtained in India, and which 
in common with most other Indian ornithologists, I have always 
called canorus. These specimens differ only from others ob- 
tained in India and from European ones, in their slightly 
smaller size, and possibly a shade slenderer bills. The present 
specimen is a female, passing out of the barred stage, the rump 
and upper tail coverts alone being pure ashy, the feathers 
narrowly margined at the tips with rufous. The wings are 
only 7-97, and the total length 12”°75, but it is of the true cano- 
rus type, with numerous narrow cross set bars on the lower 
surface, and not at all of the striatus, Drapiez, canoroides, 
Miiller (= canorinus, Cab. et Hein.), &c., &c., type with the com- 
paratively broad and widely separated bars. This species has 
not yet been recorded from the Andamans, and must now be 
entered in our list. 
200.—Cuculus striatus, Drapiez. 
A beautiful adult of this species, quite inseparable from 
Himalayau examples, was sent me from Port Blair, where it 
was procured in February. We often heard this species in the 
Andamans, where its melodious double note, “ kyphul pukha” 
is familiar to all, but it was only in the Nicobars that we suc- 
ceeded in securing specimens. 
203.—Cuculus micropterus, Gould. 
As already noticed (III, p. 264), I have received a typical 
specimen of this species from the Andamans. 
235 bis.—Arachnechthra pectoralis, Horsf. 
Comparing a large series of Nicobar specimens, with an 
equally large series from a number of different localities on the 
Malay Peninsular, south of Penang, I find that the insular bird 
runs decidedly smaller, and is of a somewhat darker and greener 
olive above than the Straits birds. 
279.—Dicrurus annectans, Hodgs. 
I entered this species as Jalicassius, Lin., but it is now admit- 
ted that this latter title applies to the Philippine species, and not 
