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tion of Str. sumatrana, Raffles (Lin. Tr. XIII, 279). Both old and young 

 are figured by Temminck, p. c. 174, 229. 



Buceros Tickellt, nobis, J. A. S. XXIV, 266, 285 ; being a second 

 species of the genus Anorrhinus of Reichenbach. The specimen origin- 

 ally described was an incompletely mature female, with the casque not fully 

 developed. Two mature males resemble it in plumage, except that the 

 rufescent hue of the lower parts is brighter, and that the wing-feathers are 

 more conspicuously pale-edged, as in the nearly affined B. galeritus, 

 Tem. The casque resembles in shape that of B. galeritus, but with the 

 bill is wholly yellowish-white, weakly infuscated on the fore-part of the 

 casque, and shewing a coral-red spot at the base of the lower mandible. 

 The frontal feathers behind the nostrils radiate forwards, so as to conceal 

 the hind-part of the casque, and in one specimen these are much tinged 

 with pale fulvous. Tips of the coverts of the primaries white, to a greater 

 or less extent, forming a small spot on the wing. Length of wing exactly 

 12 in. ; of middle tail-feathers the same ; bill from gape 4 J in., and its total 

 height, including casque, 2 or 2£ in. " Irides grey within brown." 



Picus atratus, nobis, J. A. S. XVIII, 803. Originally described 

 from a tail-less and otherwise much injured female. A fine perfect specimen 

 of a female is now sent, but the male is still a desideratum. The six medial 

 tail-feathers are wholly black, and the penultimate has only one subterminai 

 white bar on its inner web, and three on its outer web, besides the white 

 extreme tip. Chin whitish ; the throat with medial black streaks : on the 

 rest of the lower parts these are narrower and more confused, and the 

 tlanks are as indistinctly barred ; while the pale portion of the feathers is 

 deeply tinged with golden yellow. Total length S in., of which tail 3 in,, 

 and closed wing 4f in. : beak to forehead If in. " Irides carmine."* 



* Another new Woodpecker of the same group we have lately received from 

 Port Blair, being as yet only the second new species of bird from the Andaman 

 islands, — the other being the fine Shclma (Kittacincla albiventkis, nobis, 

 J. A S. XXVII, 269) ; of which more specimens have since been received, — 

 unless the Oriole (J. A. S. XXVIII, 272,) should prove to differ fromv). couo- 

 NATUS, which I still think probable. 



PlCUS andamanensis, nobis, ii. s. Nearly affined to P. ANALIS, Tem., of Java, 

 which it resembles in size and proportions, — as also P. pectoralis, nobis 

 (J. A. S. XV, 15), — all three differing from the common P. Macei of Bengal by 

 their smaller size and white-spotted middle tail-feathers : in P. Macei, as also in 

 the affined Himalayan P. bkunnierons, the four medial reclrices, and in P. 

 atratus the six medial reclrices, are spotless black ; the last named being also 

 the largest species of this particular group : in P. anoamanensis the middle 

 tail-feathers have three distinct pairs of white spots, while in P. pectoralis 

 they have four pairs of white spots of larger size: but the Andamanese bird is 

 specially characterized by the large round black spots upon its breast, each 

 margined with whitish ; the ear-coverts, also, are longitudinally streaked with 

 black, and the Hanks are more conspicuously rayed than m the others. In other 



