146 Lord Walden on a further Collection of 



90. Squatarola helvetica (Limi.), S. N. i. p. 250. no. 12 

 (17G6). 



" S. Andaman : Feb. 12, legs greenish grey.'' 

 In winter plumage. 



91. Glareola orientalis. Leach, Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 132, 

 pi. 13, " Java." 



''S.Andaman: March 9, 10, tS $ , iris dark brown, bill black, 

 red at gape, legs greenish horn-colour ; Cocos Isl., April 5." 



92. Dromas ardeola, Paykull, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1805, p. 108, 

 pi. 8. 



" Macpherson Strait, Andamans : March 4, 6 , legs pale 

 bluish slate, bill black. S. Andaman : March 12, c? , iris dark 

 brown, legs pale slaty blue, bill black." 



"Andaman: June 25." {Wimberley) . 



Two examples, shot on March 4, have the feathers of the 

 occiput and nape brown-centred ; those of the interscapular 

 region and the primaries dark brown, rather than black, mixed 

 with grey. The lengthened tertiaries are ashy rather than 

 white. A third has the head pure white and the black plu- 

 mage as in full dress; but the tertiaries are tinged with ashy. 

 The birds killed on the 12th are in full black-and-white plu- 

 mage. The example, however, obtained on June 25 is in im- 

 mature plumage. 



93. ? HvpoTiENiDiA striata (Linn.), S. N. i. p. 263 (1766). 

 Ralliis striatus, Linn. (?), Ball, J. A. S. B. 1872, p. 288. 



no. 57. 



"S. Andaman : April 25, $, bill pinkish plum-colour, tip 

 and culmen slate-colour, iris red, legs dull pinkish buff; May 

 5, c? , bill purplish lake, tip and culmen slaty brown, iris red, 

 legs pinkish buff." 



The crown of the head only is dark chestnut-brown in the 

 specimen noted as being of a female {conf. Ball, I. c.) . 



The type of the Linnaean species was obtained in the Philip- 

 pines; and until Indian and Malayan are compared with Philip- 

 pine examples their identity must remain in doubt. These 

 Andaman individuals differ from the continental and Malayan 

 form by being of a much darker iron-grey underneath, by the 



