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Several families and genera, whieh all analogy would lead us to believe 

 must find a place in the Andaman avifauna, are as yet unrepresented in any 

 of tlie collections of which descriptions have been published. 



The following is a list of the purely local species which are not known 

 to occur elsewhere : 



Spizcetus Andamanensis, Tytler. 



Muelleripicus Hodgii, Blyth. 



Centropus Andamanensis, Tytler. 



Graucalus Dobsoni, n. sp. 



Dicrurus Andamanensis, Tytler. 



Dissemurus affinis, Tytler. 



Myiagra Tytleri, Beav. 



Oreocincla infra-marginata, Blyth. 



Oriolus Andamanensis, Tytler. 



Kittacincla albiventris, Blyth. 



Dendrocitta Baylei, Tytler. 



Temenuclius Andamanensis, Tytler. 



Euryzona Canningi, Tytler. 



The species found hi the Andamans and Nieobars, but not elsewhere, 

 are : 



? Ninox affinis, Tytler.* 



Palceomis erythrogenys, Blyth. 



Geocichla innotata, Blyth. 



Eulabes Andamanensis, Tytler. 



Treron chloroptera, Blyth. 



Macropygia, rufipennis, Blyth. 



In the following enumeration and description a dagger (thus f) pre- 

 fixed, indicates that the species has not been previously recorded from the 

 Andamans. 



Fam. Aquiltjsa. 



I. Spiloenis bacha, Daud. H. bido, Horsf. No. 87 of Blyth's Cata- 

 logue, S. spilogaster. Blyth Hcematomis Elgini, Tytler. 



II. Elgini, Tytler, is considered to be identical with H. bacha by Mr. 

 Grurney, and both Mr. Blyth and Dr. Jerdon confirm this opinion (Ibis, 

 N. S. IV. 1868, p. 131 and 3rd Series, 1871, Vol. I, p. 335). Dr. Jerdon 

 writes : " It appears fully agreed on by all that the small Serpent Eagle 

 of Ceylon and Southern India is the same as the Andaman bird." 



In my previous paper, from not having seen Mr. Blyth's remarks, I en- 

 tered my specimens as Oheela, as they had the wing longer than in Tytler's 

 Elgini. In the present collection, which contains five specimens in various 

 stages of plumage, all belong to the small species. The variations in 

 plumage correspond with those observable in the different stages of CJieela, 



* I am rather inclined to believe that this bird will prove to be the same as 

 Temminck's Strix hirsute/, which Pelzeln records from the Nicobars. 



