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DR. JOHN ANDERSOX ON BIRDS 



GtEOCIchla citrina (Lath.), Oates, Birds of British Burmah, 

 vol. i. p. 3. 



a. $ , Elphinstone Island, 1st ; b. 3 , 4th ; and c. $ , 5th 

 March, 1882. d. Owen Island, 3rd Jan. 1882. 



This bird is probably distributed over all the islands of the 

 Archipelago of any size, with the exception of the more seaward 

 chain of islands, which extends from Cabosa southwards to the 

 Great Western Torres group. I observed it in the Elphinstone 

 group and in Sullivan Island, almost the northern and southern 

 extremes of the Archipelago. 



Monticola cyanus (Linn.), Oates, op. cit. vol. i. p. 11. 



a. cJ,Nga Islet, King Island, 11th Feb. 1882. b. $ , Crow 

 Islet, 27th Feb. 1882. c. £ , Zediwon, Mergui, 23rd Dec. 1881. 

 d. d (variety), Mergui, 23rd March, 1882. 



" The specimen, d, belongs to the intermediate form which 

 Mr. Seebohm has called M. cyanus solitaria, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. vol. v. p. 318." (Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



A rocky islet, about 50 yards in length, 30 in width, and 

 probably not more than 25 feet high, lies four miles to the west 

 of King Island, the largest island in the Archipelago, and three 

 miles to the south of Maingy Island, which rises to 2000 feet in 

 height. This little islet consists chiefly of a mass of bare rock, 

 but on a flattened portion of its summit were a few stunted 

 scraggy shrubs and a profusion of long grass. A miniature cliff' 

 overhangs a little cave, with a muddy and sandy shelving shore, 

 on which struggle some dwarfed mangrove-trees, while in a tiny 

 gorge, down which trickles some fresh water, grows an abundance 

 of ferns. On this sequestered spot I found Monticola cyanus 

 associated with the following birds : Corvus macrorhynchus, Hal- 

 cyon chloris, Ilypothornis azurea, and Anthreptes malaccensis, 

 some of which had built their nests and were breeding. 



Copsychus saularis (Linn.), Oates, op. cit. vol. i. p. 20. 

 a. Thaing, King Island, 1st Feb. 1882. b. d , Elphinstone 

 [aland, 3rd March, 1882. 



( JTTOCTNCLA MACRURA (0)71.), Ottles, Op. Cit. VoL i. p. 22. 



a. 6 , Elphinstone Island, 7th March, 1882. b. 3, Yimiki, 

 King Island, 24th Feb. 1HS2. c, d. Thaing, King Island, 3 Lst 

 Jan. 1882. e. , Mergui, 23rd March, 1882. 



MlXORHIfl M7BBICAPILLU8 (Tick.\ Oates, op. cit. vol. i. p. 50. 

 a, b, r. Sullivan Island, Dili Jan. L8S2. d. Thaing, King 



