280 V. Ball — Notes on Andaman Birds. [No. 4, 
round black spots upon its breast, each 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 
S and 12) there are four pairs of spots and in the remaining two (1 £ 
and 12) there are only three. 
2 Length 625 ; wing 3'87 ; tail 225 ; tarsus '75 inches. 
Mr. Blyth has seen this bird in a collection from Sumatra. 
Fc.m. CucTTim*. 
t 18. Cucm.us micboptebtjs, Gould. 
One specimen. This bird has not been previously brought from the 
Andamans. 
19. Centbopus Andamanensis, Tytler. Ibis, N. 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 17 ; tarsus L9 inches. 
Fam. NiiCTAiiiNrn.E. 
t 20. Abachtteohthea ebenata, 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 1-1 inches. 
Fam. Laniada:. 
21. L ANTES LUCIONEKSIS, Scop. 
A specimen of this bird is identical in coloration with one in the In- 
dian Museum from Mr. Swinlioe, Amoy. It differs from the ordinary Indian 
