If we conclude that the avifauna of the islands of the Bengal Sea is essentially Indian and not Indo-Burmese and Indo-Malayan, we must accept the fact with the qualification that we find it here in a most imperfect and mutilated form, lacking more or less entirely a large proportion of its characteristic genera, many of which are the strongest and most widely distributed, and to which the climate would appear in every way congenial.[222] _List of Birds occurring in the Andamans and Nicobars._[223] (A. denotes occurrence in the Andamans, N. in the Nicobars.) Corvus macrorhyncus, Wagl. A. Dendrocitta bayleyi, Tytler A. Zosterops palpebrosa, Temm. A. N. Irena puella, Lath. A. Otocompsa emeria, Linn. A. N. Iole nicobarica, Moore N. Micropus fusciflavescens, Hume A. Dicrurus annectens, Hodgs. N. D. leucogenys, Wald. N. Dissemuroides andamanensis, Tytler A. D. dicruriformis, Hume A. D. paradiseus, Linn. A. N. Locustella certhiola, Pall. A. N. L. lanceolata, Temm. A. Cisticola cursitans, Frankl. N. Arundinax ædon, Blyth A. N. Phylloscopus fuscatus, Blyth A. Acanthopneuste magnirostris, Blyth A. A. borealis, Blas. A. A. lugubris, Blyth A. A. tennilipes, Swinhoe N. Horornis pallidipes, Blanf. A. Lanius cristatus, Linn. A. L. lucionensis, Linn. A. N. Pericrocrotus andamanensis, Tytler A. P. peregrinus, Linn. A. P. cinereus, Lafr. A. Campophaga terat, Bodd. N. Grauculus macii, Less. A. G. dobsoni, Ball A. Artamus leucogaster, Val. A. Oriolus macrurus, Blyth A. O. andamanensis, Tytler A. O. melanocephalus, Linn. A. Eulabes intermedia, Hay A. N. Calornis chalybeus, Horsf. A. N. Pastor roseus, Linn. A. Sturnia andamanensis, Tytler A. S. erythropygia, Blyth N. Agropsar sturninus, Pall. N. Acridotheres tristis, Linn. A. N. Muscitrea griseola, Blyth A. Anthipes olivaceus(?), Hume A. Alseonax latirostris, Raffl. A. Terpsiphone nicobarica, Oates A. N. Hypothymis azurea, Bodd. N. H.