Y. Ball — Notes on Andaman Birds. 
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1872.] 
Several families and genera, which all analogy would lead us to believe 
must find a place in the Andaman avifauna, are as yet unrepresented in any 
of the collections of which descriptions have been published. 
The following is a list of the purely local speoies which are not known 
to occur elsewhere : 
Spizatus Andamanensis , Tytler. 
Muelleripicus Hodgii, Blytli. 
Centropus And/imcmensis, Tytler. 
Graucalws Dolsoni, n. sp. 
Dicrut'us Andmnaniensisy Tytler. 
Dissemurus ajfinis, Tytler. 
Myiagra Tytleri, Beav. 
Oreocincla infra~marginata, Blyth. 
Oriolus Andamanensis f Tytler. 
Kittadncla albiventris , Blytli. 
Dendrodtta Bay lei , Tytler. 
Temenuchus Andamanensis , Tytler. 
Ewryzona Ctmningi , Tytler. 
The species found in the Andamans and Nicobars, but not elsewhere, 
are : 
? Ninons affinis, Tytler.* 
Palteomis erythrogenys, Blyth. 
Oeocichla innotata, Blyth. 
Pulabes Andamanensis, Tytler. 
Treron chloroptera, Blyth. 
Macropygia mfipennis, 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. Aquilina. 
1. Spixobnis bacha, Daud. H. lido, Horsf. No. 87 of Blyth’s Cata- 
logue, (S', spilogaster. Blyth Hcematornis Elgini, Tytler. 
H. Elgini, Tytler, is considered to be identical with H. lacha by Mr. 
Gurney, 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 Gheela, 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 Gheela, 
* I am rather inclined to Believe that this bird will prove to be the same as 
Temminck’s Strix hirsuta which Pelzeln records from the Nicobars. 
