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but two specimens have just as much white on the throat as the 
Nicobar birds, and one has the head and other parts just as 
brightly colored. 
The Nicobar female again has more white on the throat than 
three out of the five Andaman birds, but two of the Andaman 
birds have just as much white. The Nicobar bird again has 
the head and lower parts considerably more deeply colored than 
four out of the five Andaman birds, but the fifth Andaman 
bird only differs by a shade. 
On the whole it seems to me that all that can be said is that 
the Nicobar birds, as a body, are more deeply colored and have 
more white on the throat than the Andaman birds ; but looking 
to the fact that this distinction is by no means absolutely con- 
stant, and that it is not accompanied by any perceptible differ- 
ence in size, I do not think that this is sufficient to warrant 
specific separation, and I cannot therefore now concur in the 
propriety of separating the Andamanese bird under Lord 
Walden’s title of G. andamanensis. 
520 dis.—Locustella lanceolata, Tem. 
Tam now disposed to’think that my ZL. subsignata, really may 
be, as stated by Lord Walden, identical with Temminck’s bird. 
The entire tone of coloration is quite different from that of a 
specimen obtained on the Attaran river in Tenasserim, and 
which was pronounced by Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser to be 
probably the true lanceolatus, but I have since obtained numer- 
ous specimens further south in the Tenasserim provinces, 
corresponding well with the Andaman species, and I am dis- 
posed to think that either the Attaran specimen is not the true 
lanceolatus, or that it is in very different stage of plumage. It 
is well known how these Locuste/las vary in plumage according 
to season ; this is most conspicuous in the case of L. Henderson, 
Cassin. The only difficulty here is that the Attaran specimen 
and others killed in the Andamans and in the extreme south 
of Tenasserim, were killed in the same month, and yet differ as 
widely in plumage as does Hendersoni immediately after the 
antumn moult and during the breeding season. 
On the whole, I think, the Andaman bird must stand as Jan- 
ceolata, and the question of the identity or otherwise of the 
Attaran bird must be left to future investigation. 
556 bis.—Phyllopneuste borealis, Blas. 
Lord Walden, /bis, 1874, p. 140, records a specimen of this 
species from the South Andamans. I myself have only seen the 
nearly allied P. magnirostris from these islands. Borealis is 
very like maguirostris, but greyer about the neck and breast, with 
more pointed wings and a small first primary as in sibilatria. 
