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V. Ball — Notes on Andaman Birds. 
[No. 4, 
to rufescence on the rump, upper tail coverts, under tail-coverts or tail fea- 
thers, as 1S so distinctly marked in the Nicobar birds. 
•n 1 ° bserve to °’ thm [gh I doubt its being a constant character, that the 
ill of the Nicobar bird is somewhat more slender and less conical than in 
the Andaman specimens. 
£ Wing 4 3 ; tail 3'2 ; hill at front l'l ; tarsus 1 inch. 
42. Eulabes Andamanensis, Tytlpr. 
,, . Previous paper I simply confined myself to pointing out 
that the Andaman and Nicobar birds are identical, feeling that without a 
larger series for comparison, and in the state of opinion on the subject of the 
different races of Euiabes, my safest course was, to follow Lord Walden, who 
as pronounced the Andaman bird to be a distinct and good species. Since 
that time, Dr. Stoliczka has discussed the subject at length (J. A. S. B, 
XXXIX, pt. II, p. 326) and has been replied to by Lord Walden (Ibis, 3rd 
Senes, YoL I, p. 177). Dr. Stoliczka believes the Nepal, Arracan, Anda- 
man, Nicobar, Wellesley province and Malacca birds to be “ geographical 
races of the same species” viz., E. Javanensis, Osbeck. 
Lord Walden maintains not only the distinctness of intermedia and 
Andamanensis ; but from recent examination of specimens from Malacca ques- 
tions their identity with the true Javanensis from Java. 
I have before me two specimens from a dealer’s collection from “ the 
Straits” which I take to belong to the large Malacca species generally 
known as Javanensis. In these the bill is well curved and high ; the naked 
space^ below the eye is quite disconnected with the wattles. 
The Andaman and Nicobar specimens are smaller and have the bill 
lower and straighter. The bare patch underneath the eye is not absolutely 
disconnected from the wattles. So far as I can see the colour of the bill and 
the size of the lappets are extremely variable in specimens from the same 
locality. In my Nicobar specimen, the commencement of the wattles behind 
the eye is broader than in either of the Andamanese, but in other respects, 
the size and shape of 1 the bill, feet &c., there is no perceptible difference. 
Measurements in inches of a specimen in Dr. Dobson’s collection. 
Wing 6'3 ; tail 3'25 ; bill from gape 15 ; tarsus. L4. 
Earn. Fein gillidjE. 
43. Munia eeuconota, Tern. 
Two specimens. Feathers not striated. 
men 
Earn. Teeeokidje. 
44. OsMOTEEEON CHXOBOETEEA, Blyth. 
Tins bird is said to be common, the collection contains only one speci- 
lhere aie grave suspicions that the bird-skinner made the 
