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ON A FUETHER COLLECTION OF 



[1874. 



Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 139. 



wing being five inches. But the Burmese form only differs from true 0. melanocephalus by 

 being smaller, the average length of wing in that species from the Himalayas, Bengal, Central 

 India, and Assam being five and a half inches. 



76. Geocichla albogulaeis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 146, "Nicobars." 



Geocichla innotata, Blyth, oj). cit. 1858, p. 270, " Andamans ;" Ball, Str. Feath. i. p. 69. 

 no. 61 ; Blyth, Append, to Mouat, Andaman Isl. p. 300. no. 36 (1863). 



" S. Andaman : March, April, May, 6 ? ; iris umber-brown, bill dark brown, lighter at 

 base of mandible, legs pale flesh-colour." 



The title adopted above was given by Mr. Blyth to the Nicobar Geocichla, which he 

 subsequently identified {I. c.) with that of the Andamans. The specific name innotata, Blyth, 

 was bestowed {op. cit. 1847, p. 146) on examples from the Malayan peninsula, from which the 

 Andaman species appears to differ by being considerably smaller and by having the ferruginous- 

 orange colouring of the plumage, especially on the head, less intense. Mr. Blyth, however, at a 

 later date regarded them as identical. 



77. MoNTicoLA soLiTAEius (P. L. S. Miiller), Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 142. no. 46 (1776). 



Petrocossyphus cyanus (Linn.), Ball, Str. Feath. i. p. 69 (1873). 



"Eoss Island : Feb. 18, c?, iris bright brown, bill black, legs dark brown." 



Lower breast and ventral region deep chestnut, a few feathers here and there tipped with 



blue. The single specimen sent is almost identical in plumage with one obtained at Malacca on 



Dec. 5, 1865. 



78. LocusTELLA LAXCEOLATA (Temm.), Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 614, "Mayence" (1840). 

 LocusteUa, allied to L. raii, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 412, "Amoy." 



Locustella minuta, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 93, "Amoy, Canton." 

 Lusciniola lanceolata (Temm.), G. R Gray, Hand-1. i. p. 210. no. 2970 (1869). 

 Locustella minuta, Swinhoe: G. E. Gray, op. cit. iii. p. 277. no. 2976ffl (1871). 

 Locustella stihsignata, Hume, Str. Feath. i. p. 409, "Aberdeen, Port Blair" (July 1873). 



" S. Andaman : April 9, bill dark horny brown, below pale fleshy, legs pale fleshy white." 



Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 140. 



79. Phyllopneuste boeealis, Blasius, Naumannia, 1858, p. 313, "Sea of Okhotsk." 



" S. Andaman: Feb. 21, bill above dark homy, below pale reddish yellow, legs dirty 



yellowish white ; Feb. 22, $ , iris brown, upper mandible dark horny, lower light homy, legs 



skin-colour : March 28, ? ." 



