258 ON A FUETHEE COLLECTION OF [1874. 



Ibis, 1874, "South Andaman: 2 , April 15, iris brown, bill dark brown, legs fleshy purple." 



P- ■^^-- " Port Blair, S. Andaman : June 13, 14, 23 ; July 2, 3, 15, 17, 23, 28." {Wimherley.) 



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 third 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 fuU plumage as regards its coloration, has the nostril-patches and chin almost pure white. 



70. CoLLOCALiA FK-UJ^ciCA (Gm.), S. N. i. p. 1017. no. 15 (1788), ex Montbeillard. 



La petite Hirondelle noire a croujnon (jris, Montbeillard, Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. G96, "He de 

 France "(1779). 



Esculent Swalloio, 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 escidenta, Osbeck"*, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 142, sp. 1, "Java " (1820). 

 Hirundo hreviwstris, 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. 

 Ibis, 1874, Hirundo unicolor, Jerdon, Madr. J. Sc. xi. p. 238, " Neilgherries " (1840). 



p. 133. Cypselus concolor, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1842, p. 886, ex Jerdon. 



Ci/pselus unicolor, Jerdon, oj). cit. xiii. pt. i. p. 173, pt. ii. p. 144 (1844). 

 Collocalia nidifica, G. E. Gray: Gray & Mitch. Genera of Birds, i. p. 55. no. 2 (1844), ex 

 Latham. 



Collocalia xmicolor (Jerdon), Blyth, op. cit. 1845, pp. 209, 212, "Darjeeling, Neilgherries." 

 XHemiprocne salangana, Streubel, Isis, 1848, p. 368, "East Indies." 



Collocalia nidifica (Lath.)f, Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 86. no. 423, "Nilgiris, Ceylon, Sikim, 

 Assam, Malay countries " (1849). 



Collocalia nidifica, G. R. Gray: Horsf. & Moore, Cat. E. I. C. Mus. i. p. 98. no. 122 (1854). 

 Collocalia fucipliaga (Thunb.), Bp. C. R. xli. p. 977. no. 4 (1855); id. R. Z. 1855, p. 581. 

 no. 4. 



Collocalia escidenta (Lath.), Bernstein, Nov. Act. Ac. C. L. C. Nat. Cur. xxvi. p. 15, pi. 2. 

 f. 3, 4, "Java" (1857). 



Collocalia nidifica (Lath.), Bernstein, J. f. O. 1859, p. 118. no. 2, "Java, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 Malacca." 



* There was no such title given by Osbeck ; it first appears in the ' Faunula Sinensis,' of G. K. Forstcr, and was added 

 by him to his English translation of the German translation by J. G. Georgi of the Swedish original by Osbeck. Forster 

 merely employed the Linnean title. 



t No such title was ever used by Latham. 



