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This individual was sited mid-canopy of a ficus tree with fruiting the light was bit on the lower side because of the clouds, the bird just hopped onto a clear perch where I was standing it was a clear view first I miss took it with a female asian fairy blue bird but after keenly observing it with binoculars I got to see more details it was completely black the posture and the body shape and size was different from any of my assumed species like larger than a thrush smaller than an Asian Fairy Bluebird , it was totally a black bird with yellowish orange beak and some discolouration near the throat and a thin eye ring as I was not carrying a camera I tried taking a picture of it using my phone with my binoculars as lens as i was trying hard to get a good picture it took off and went to another tree nearby and perched on mid canopy this time i followed it and it perched on much clearer branch now the legs were clear too until now my assumptions was it to be an Indian Blackbird but as soon as I was able to see the legs which were completely black and i knew that Indian Blackbird have yellows legs (using merlin app) now I got an opportunity to click some pictures using my phone i tried as hard as possible to take a clearer picture so that i can confirm the identification and immediately I sent-the pictures to Mr. Arun Singh how later confirm the ID as Chinese Blackbird because it has already been reported here in Andaman Islands at Narcondam Island, November 2020 by Mr. G. Gokulkrishnan. I hope the picture which I’ll upload clears the things and illustrates the details better. More inputs are sought and the reviewer may contact more experts to validate claim.