1874.] BIEDS FROM THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 263 



80. RuTiciLLA SUECICA (Linn.), S. N. i. p. 336 (1766). 



" S. Andaman : March 9, bill at base horny, at gape yellow, iris dark brown, legs pale brown, 

 soles yellowish ; <j , April 14." 



One example has the chin and throat pale blue ; a white cross band bordering the pale 

 blue throat ; a few of these white feathers tipped with ferruginous ; a dark blue band below the 

 white, each feather white at its base ; then a broad brown pectoral band, followed by ferruginous. 

 The male specimen, obtained a month later, has the chin and throat pale blue ; a broad ferru- 

 ginous plastron, then a well-defined pale blue band, followed by a dark brown band terminated 

 by ferruginous. This last example is in perfect plumage, unless the paleness of the blue on the 

 throat and breast may be taken as indicative of non-breeding. I have never met with a South- 

 Asiatic specimen so perfectly coloured. 



81. LiMONlDROMUs iNDicus (Gm.), S. N. i. p. 962. no. 80 (1788), ex Sonnerat, Voy. Indes, 

 ii. p. 207. 



La Lavandiere variee, Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. iv. p. 86, pi. 179, " Caffraria " (!), 1805. 

 Ilotacilla variegata, Vieill. N. Diet. xiv. p. 599 (1817), ex Levaill. 

 Nemoricola indica (Gm.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 429, 

 Limonidromus indicus (Gould), B. of As. pt. xiv. pi. (1862). 



" S. Andaman : March 20, 24, 29, ? , iris dark brown, bill horu-colour, light underneath, 

 legs pale flesh-colour." 



82. CoEYDALLA STRioLATA (Blyth), J. A. S, B. 1847, p. 435, " Darjeeling." 



" South Andaman : c? , April 14, iris light brown, bill dark brown above, fleshy below, legs 

 pale flesh-colour." 



Agrees with Darjeeling examples, but I am disposed to doubt the propriety of separating ibis, 1874, 

 this form from C. rufula. P- ^'*-^- 



83. Anthus cekvinus (Pallas), Zoogr. Eosso-As. i. p. 511. no. 142 (1831); Blyth, Append. 

 Mouat, Andaman Isl. p. 361. no. 44 (1863). 



Antlms riifo-superciliaris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1860, p. 105, " Andamans." 



"South Andaman: Feb. 17, 18, 6, iris brown, bill horn-colour, lighter beneath, legs and 



feet dusky skin-colour." 



Two examples with vinous chin and throat, and two with but slight indications of vinous on 



one or two of the throat-plumes. Axillaries and shoulder-edge in all four albescent. 



84. Htloterpe grisola (Blyth), J. A. S. B. 1843, p. 180 bis, "Calcutta;" op. cit. IS'id, 

 p. 573, "Java"; ojJ.cit. 1846, p. 305, "Java and Penang;" Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 153. no. 886, 

 " Penang, Java, Arakan, very rare in Lower Bengal ;" op. cit. 1858, p. 270, " Andamans." 



Illylocharis luscinia, S. Miiller, Tidjschrift v. Nat. Geschied. 1835, p. 331, "Sumatra," 

 descr. null. 



Tephrodornis superciliaris, Sw. var., Blyth, op. cit. 1842, p. 779, " Calcutta." 



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