1873.] 



FEOM THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 



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Polyn. p. 20 G) does not admit the specific distinction of the Nicobar examples, and states that 

 examples from Amboina are nearly as small as those included by Von Pelzeln under I), concolor. 



61. BuTORiDES JAVAJSTicus (Horsf.), Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 190, " Java" (1820). 



" S. Andaman, Feb. 4 : $ , iris yellow ; legs and feet dark green ; soles of feet yellow." 

 A single example. Does not diifer from Indian individuals. 



62. Mareca gibberifrons, S. Miiller, Verhand. p. 159, " Celebes " (1839-44) ; Walden, 

 Tr. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 102*. 



Querq^iedula midamanensis, Tytler, Ibis, 1867, p. 333. no. 89, sine descr. 

 ■? Mareca punotata, Cuv. : Ball, J. A. S. B. 1872, p. 290. no. 62, " Andamans;" Str. Feath, 

 i. p. 88. 



Mareca albogularis, Hume, Str. Feath. i. p. 303, " Andamans " (1873). 



" S. Andaman, d ? , February ; iris brown ; bill plumbeous ; legs and feet greenish : $ , 

 January. 



The collection contains three males and two females. One, a female, is absolutely identical 

 with an authentic Celebesian example. While equal in dimensions with Timor examples, they 

 all somewhat exceed in size Celebesian individuals, which, as is well known, are generally smaller 

 than the races that inhabit other areas. 



Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 321. 



{Anteci, p. 201.— Ed.] 



