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590.—Motacilla luzoniensis, Scop. 
I admitted this species into my list with some doubt, no 
specimens having been procured of late years. Now at last 
however Captain Wimberley has procured a single specimen near 
Port Blair in February. It is a female, with the very dark grey 
of the back patched, or beginning to be mottled with black. 
Captain Wimberley informs me that this is the only specimen 
he has ever seen. 
631 ter.—Zosterops nicobariensis, Blyth. 
I have carefully re-examined two large series of this sup- 
posed species, one from the Andamans, and the other from the 
Nicobars. In the great majority of specimens the bills of these 
insular birds are longer and conspicuously broader at the 
base than in the continental pa/pebrosus. In some specimens 
the difference in size is so marked and conspicuous that no 
one would hesitate to separate nicobariensis as distinct, but 
out of the large series two are, as far as I can see, absolutely 
inseparable from palpebrosa, and in at least one-fourth of the 
specimens, the difference of size is inconsiderable. 
As regards color I do not think that they can be safely 
separated; no doubt, a good many of the insular birds do have 
the upper surface somewhat greener, but others correspond in 
this respect with continental specimens. Whether under these 
circumstances the species should be maintained as distinct, is 
entirely a matter of opinion ; personally I am not disposed to 
think that it should be separated. This is just one of those 
cases in which the trinomial nomenclature (which I am con- 
fident our successors will adopt) would be so convenient. 
The name Zosterops palpebrosa nicobariensis would exactly fit 
the case. ; 
701 ¢er.—Munia fumigata, Walden. 
The Andaman race of J. striata, which I described, II, p. 257, 
under the name of “ non-striata,’’ must stand as above. The 
Nicobar race, which is quite as distinct from the Andaman one 
asis this latter from striata must, if separated at all, stand 
under my name “ semisériata,’ under which I characterized 
it, loc. cit. 
720.—Emberiza pusilla, Pall. 
As already noticed (II, p. 497), this species has to be 
included in the list. It was obtained near Port Blair by Lieu- 
tenant Wardlaw Ramsay. 
730 ter.—Carpophaga insularis, Blyth. 
This species must begin to lay at the end of December. 
On the 12th February Mr. De Roepstorff shot a young bird 
