Birds from the Andaman Islands. 147 



olive parts of the upper plumage being darker, and the chest- 

 nut of the head and nape of a deeper sliade, almost brown on 

 the crown. It may be that they belong to true H. striata; 

 but if it should prove otherwise, I propose for this Andaman 

 race the title of H. ferrea. 



94. Erythra phcenicura (Forster), Zool. Ind. p. 19, pi. 9, 

 "Ceylon'^ (1781). 



''S. Andaman : March 10, April 4, $, iris reddish brown, 

 legs greenish yellow, bill pale green, red at base of upper 

 mandible; May 7, 2-" 



95. ToTANus CALiDRis(Linn.),S.N.i. p. 252.no.l9(1766). 

 ^'S. Andaman : Feb. 20, ?, iris brown, legs and feet dull 



orange red, base of lower mandible red.^^ 



"Port Blair, South Andaman: May 31, July 12." {Wim- 

 berley) . 



96. Tringa subarquata (Giildenst.), Nov. Com. Petr. xix. 

 p. 471, pi. 13 (1775). 



" S. Andaman : March 22, S , legs and feet greenish black." 



97. Tringa crassirostris, Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, 

 p. 107, pi. 64, "Japan, Java, Borneo" (1846). 



Schoeniclus magnus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 39, "Aus- 

 tralia;" Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 33. 



Tringa magna (Gould), Bp. C. R. xliii.p.596.no.211(1856). 



Tringa tenuirostris (Horsf.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 315. 

 no. 298 ; op. cit. 1871, p. 408. n. 560. 



Tringa tenuirostris (Horsf.), Gould, Handbook B. of Aus- 

 tralia, ii. p. 260, sp. 520 (1865); G."R. Gray, Handbook, iii. 

 p. 49.no. 10302 (1871). 



"S. Andaman : March 14, ?, iris dark brown, bill black, 

 legs greenish brown." 



Both Professor Schlegel (M. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 28) 

 and Mr. Harting {in epist.) are of opinion that Totanus tenui- 

 rostris, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 192, " Java," refers to Tota- 

 nus stagnatilis, Bechstein, and not to this bird. Mr. Harting 

 most justly observes that Horsfield (/. c), having classed the 

 Javan bird under the genus Totanus, would never have used 



