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V. Ball — Notes on Andaman Birds. 
[No. 4. 
I could not see any constant characters which would serve to distinguish 
the two species other than that of size. Measurements of a male in inches : 
wing 14-2 ; tail 9’2 ; bill to gape 1'8 ; tarsus 3 4. 
2. Halijetus ef.ucogastf.k, Gmel. 
Three specimens in various stages of plumage. Length of wing of 
adult 208 inches. 
Fam. Strt.gt'die. 
3. E PFITAT.TES SPILOCEPItALUS, Blyth. (?) 
So far as it is possible to make out one of these difficult birds without 
a good series for comparison, the specimen of Andaman scops before me 
appears to correspond most nearly with Blyth’s description of E. spilocepha- 
lus ( ■= 8. Malayanus, Hay ?) J. A. S. B. XV. p. 8, and with a specimen 
of that species from Masuri in the old collection, No. 147, I, of Blyth’s Cat. 
Mr. Hume only doubtfully refers spilocephalm, Blyth, to gymnopodus, 
Gray, so that for the present I think it safer to give Blyth’s name. The 
bird certainly belongs to the pennatus type as distinguished by Mr. Hume, 
though Col. Tytler records E. Lempiyi from the Andamans. 
Authorities are so divided as to the nomenclature to be adopted in 
reference to this genus, that without attempting to discuss the question as 
to what species spilocephalm should be finally referred to, I shall confine 
myself to shewing the points of resemblance between the Andaman bird and 
spilocephalm, Blyth, by the description of the former which is as follows : 
Above. Rufous inclining to bay, each feather of the head, back of neck, 
scapulars, wing coverts, back and rump with two fawn colored spots edged 
with black. Primaries — first two not grown, fourth and fifth equal, five 
white spots on the outer webs. Tail rufous brown, darker on the inner webs 
of the rectrices, with four white bands. 
Beneath. Facial disk fawn colour. Loral bristles black, white towards 
the base. Breast and abdomen finely mottled with brown and fawn or dusky 
white, each feather with two brownish black spots which are separated by a 
white bar. Tarsi covered for three-fourths of their length with short rufous 
colored feathers, barred with brown. Feet and claws not quite so slender as 
in the Masuri specimen. 
Measurement in inches : wing 5 P 6 ; tail 3 ; tarsus 1. 
Fam. Hieundinim. 
4. Coi/localia Ldvchi, Horsf. Hirundo fuciphaga, Thun. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 143, 0. Linclvi et C. fuciphaga, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, 
p. 384. 0. affinis, Tytler ? 
The present collection contains three specimens of Collocalia which 
appear to have been taken from the nest as the primaries are not fully grown. 
