1873.J PEOM THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 249 



55. NuMENius Pii^EOPus (Linn.), S. N. i. p. 243 (17GG). 

 " S. Andaman, Jan. 3." 



56. AcTiTis HTPOLEUCA (Linn.), S. N. i. p. 250 (1766). 



" Ross Island, Dec. 15, ? ; S. Andaman, Jan. 3, ? , 29, ? ." 



57. AcTiTis GLAREOLA (Gm.), S. N. i. p. 677. no. 21 (1788). 



"S. Andaman: Dec. 31, c?; Jan. 22, d : legs and feet yellowish green; bill dark brown." 

 Winter plumage. 



58. Tringa albescens, Temm. PI. Col. 41. fig. 2, " rOceanie" (1823). 



" S. Andaman, Jan. 24 : iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet greenish black." 

 In winter plumage. Mr, Harting inclines to the opinion that T. rvficollis, Pallas (Reise. iii. 

 p. 700. no. 31, 1776), is this species in full breeding-plumage, relying on the expression " subtus 

 collum totum ad pectus usque intense ferrugineum." T. salina, Pallas (Zoogr. ii. p. 199. 

 no. 309), Mr. Harting identifies with T. suhmiiiuta, v. Middendorff'. Of that species Pallas says, 

 " Jugulum ferrugineo-nebulosum album, punctis fuscis, in masculo crebrioribus ; reliqua subtus 

 alba." Mr. Harting's hypothesis can only be maintained on the assumption that Pallas described 

 examples of two distinct species in the full belief that they belonged to one and the same. For Ibis, 1873, 

 Pallas (Zoogr. /. c.) identifies T. salina with the T. riiJicoUis of his earlier work, although, ^' 

 curiously enough, he attributes the title of ruJicolUs to Latham, the English author having only 

 borrowed that title and the description from Pallas. It may be here observed that the Japanese 

 specimen mentioned by Mr. Sharpe (Dresser's Birds of Eur. T. minuta, p. 5) as being T. albescens 

 is nothing but T. minuta. 



59. Gallinago stenura (Kuhl), Bp. Annali di Storia Naturale, Bologna, iii. fasc. 14, " Sunda 

 Islands" (1830); Isis, 1833, p. 1077. 



" S. Andaman: d , Dec. 19, 23, 27; d , Feb. 5: iris bright brown; legs and feet greyish 

 horn-colour ; bill, basal half light horn, remainder brown : ? , Feb. 6 ; iris brown; legs and feet 

 pale green ; bill light horn, remainder brown. Port Mouat, ? , Feb. 5 : iris bright brown ; legs 

 and feet greyish green." 



60. Demiegretta sacra (Gm.), S, N. i. p. 640 (1788), ex Lath. Synop. v. p. 92, " Otaheite." 

 Demiegretta concolor, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1846, p. 372, "Arracan, Nicobars." 



Herodias andamanensis, Tytler: Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 333, "Andamans." 

 Herodias concolor (Blyth), Ball, Str. Feath. i. p. 87. no. 122. 

 Demiegretta greyi, G. R. Gray, ap. Hume, op. cit. p. 307. 



" Ross Island, Dec. 20, Feb. 4 : iris pale yellow ; bill brown, mandible tinged with yellowish 

 green; legs bright green, soles yellow." 



Moulting from ferruginous brown into uniform ash-colour, a narrow white line extending 

 from the chin down tlie neck for about one and three quarters of an inch. 



It has recently been asserted by Mr. Hume (Str. Feath. i. p. 254) that the Ardea asha 



