2S0 V. Ball — Notes on Andamcm Birds. [No. 4, 



round black spots upon its breast, eacb margined with whitish ; the ear 

 coverts also are longitudinally more conspicuously rayed than in the others. 

 In other respects this bird resembles P. macei." 



The present collection which contains five specimens shews that the 

 number of spots on the middle tail feathers is not a constant. In three (2 

 $ and 1 2 ) there are four pahs of spots and in the remaining two (1 $ 

 and 12) there are only three. 



$ Length 625 ; wing 3"S7 ; tail 2'25 ; tarsus "75 inches. 



Mr. Blyth has seen this bird in a collection from Sumatra. 



Fain. CucTTLma;. 



t 18. Cucm/us micropterus, G-ould. 



One specimen. This bird has not been previously brought from the 

 Andamans. 



19. Centroptts Andamajstensis, Tytler. Ibis, 1ST. S. Ill, 1867, p. 321. 



The collection contains four specimens. Head, neck to middle of back, 

 chin, throat and breast rufous grey. Abdomen, thigh-coverts and under 

 tail coverts the same with an ashy tinge. Back, rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ashy. Wings and scapulars rufous bay. Tail brown, paling from 

 the centre to the margins of the feathers. Bill black. Length 17 to 18 ; 

 wing 7 - 5 ; bill at gape 1*7 ; tarsus 1*9 inches. 



Fam. Nectarentdjb. 



f 20. Arachnechthra erenata, Mull. ? 



The specimens of Arachnechthra hitherto received from the Andamans 

 have been identified as pectoralis, and following suit in my previous paper 

 on Andaman birds I stated that species to be " common on Mount Harriet." 

 The birds in the present collection are distinguished from pectoralis by 

 wanting the slightest trace of a metallic blue frontal patch. With the 

 characters of A. frenata, Mull., given by Lord Walden in the Ibis for 1870, 

 p. 26, they agree and the wing exactly corresponds with that of Muller's 

 figure ; but there is no trace of a maroon pectoral band represented, which 

 though slight, is present in. all our $ specimens. The yellow supercilium is 

 distinctly marked. Another character which distinguishes this from 

 pectoralis, and helps to separate it from several other species, is the size 

 of the bill which closely approximates to that of A. intermedia, Hume. 



Length 4 - 2 ; wing 2"1 ; bill at front "8, tail 1*4 inches. 



Fam. Laniam;. 



21. Lanius lttckmtensis, Scop. 



A specimen of this bird is identical in coloration with one in the In- 

 dian Museum from Mr. Swinhoe, Amoy. It differs from the ordinary Indian 



