Centrococcyx andamanensis (Tytler).
The Andaman Coucal.

Centropus andamanensis (Tytl.), Hume, Rough Draft N. & E. no. 217 bis.

The Andaman Coucal breeds (of course in the Andamans) during the latter part of the hot weather and the beginning of the rains. I have no detailed information as to its nidification, but Captain Wimberley, who sent me two eggs which he took in the neighbourhood of Port Blair, informs me that he took them in June, and that the nest was composed of sticks and placed in a tolerably high tree in secondary jungle. The eggs are of the usual Coucal type, broad ovals, very obtuse at both ends ; in colour a dull, much - soiled white, with very little gloss ; and measuring 1.32 by 1.12 inch, and 1.33 by 1.1 inch.