132 Lord Walden on a further Collection of 



''South Andaman: 2, April 15, iris brown, bill dark 

 brown, legs fleshy purple." 



'' Port Blair, S. Andaman : June 13, 14, 23 ; July 2, 3, 15, 

 17, 23, 28." (Wimberley.) 



With the exception of three individuals killed respectively 

 April 15 and July 2 and 23, all the examples obtained have 

 moulted the first primary, the new quill being developed one 

 fourth, in others one thii'd of its length only. The second 

 primary also is not full grown, being somewhat shorter than 

 the third. The specimens obtained on July 2 and 23, although 

 having fully developed primaries, are of adolescent birds, the 

 crown being smoke-brown, hardly suffused with green, the 

 whole lower surface being fuliginous, without any green gloss, 

 no white indicated in the chin and throat, and the patch 

 behind each nostril rather rusty brown than white. These 

 adolescent examples agree well in all respects with Malaccan 

 individuals in my collection, in which, however, the frontal 

 patches are barely indicated. An Andaman bird, killed on 

 June 23, in full plumage as regards its coloration, has the 

 nostril-patches and chin almost pure white. 



70. CoLLOCAHA FRANCicA (Gm.), S. N. i. p. 1017. no. 15 

 (1788), ex Montbeillard. 



La petite Hirondelle noire a croupion gris, Montbeillard, 

 Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 696, "He de France" (1779). 



Esculent Swallow, Lath. Gen. Synop. Suppl. ii. p. 257. no. 1, 

 pi. 135, " Sumatra" (1802) ; id. Gen. Hist. vii. p. 296. no. 18, 

 pi. 112, "Sumatra" (1823). 



Esculent Swallow, Stephens, Gen. Zool. x. p. Ill, pi. 12 

 (1817), ex Latham. 



"Hirundo esculenta, Osbeck "■^, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 142, 

 sp. 1, "Java" (1820). 



Hirundo brevirostris, McClelland, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 155. 

 no. 10, "Assam." Conf. Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 548, note; 

 op.cit. 1847, p. 119. 



* There was no such title given by Osbeck; it first appears in the 'Faunula 

 Sinensis,' of G. R. Forster, and was added by him to his English ti-anslation 

 of the German translation by J. G. Georgi of the Swedish original by 

 Osbeck. Forster merely employed the Linnean title. 



