1874.] BIRDS FEOM THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 2G5 



title both among the Shrikes and the Humming-birds, and credits Dr. Cabanis with the authorship 

 of Hylocharis as well as IIyloter]^e, an evident misreading of the passage in the ' Archiv.' 



85. ZosTEROPS PALPEBEOSA (Temm.), PI. Col. 293. fig. 3, " Bengale " (1824). 



" S. Andaman: March 3, 29, $ , iris bright red-brown, bill above dark horn-colour, below 

 whitish, legs greenish grey ; April 27, c? , iris light reddish brown, bill slaty brown, legs slaty 

 green ; May 5, c? ." 



The male obtained in May closely resembles Maunbhoom examples ; but the upper plumage 

 has not quite so yellow a tinge, and the frontal feathers are not perhaps as decidedly bright 

 yellow. The dimensions are alike, save those of the bill, which considerably exceed in length 

 that of the continental species. The other examples are darker above, closely resembling the 

 Neilgherry race, but as dark as in Z. lateralis. In them the bill also exceeds in length that of 

 the Maunbhoom and other Indian examples. 



86. Emberiza pusilla, Pallas, Eeise Euss. Eeichs, iii. p. 697. no. 20, " Dauria " (1776). 



Emheriza sordida, Hodgson, J. A. S. B. 1844, p. 958, "Nipaul," $ . 

 Oci/ris oinojjs, Hodgson, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 35, d . 



" S. Andaman : March 28, $ , iris dark brown ; biU dark horn-colour, lighter below : legs 

 fl , n ,. * "" IWs, 1874, 



flesh-yellow. p_ i^^^ 



Undistinguishable from Lake-Baikal examples. 



87. MuNiA PUMIGATA, Walden, Ann. Mag. N.H. (4), xii. p. 488*, "S. Andaman" (Dec. 1873). 

 Munia leuconota (Temm.), Ball, Str. Feath. i. p. 79. no. 90, "Andaman" (1873), nee Temm. 

 "S. Andaman: Feb. 11." 



The following Asiatic species constitute, together with this Andaman bird, a well-defined 

 subgroup of the genus Munia : — 



Uropygium white. 



(1.) LoxiA STRIATA, Linn.f, S. N. i. p. 306. no. 37 (1766), ex Briss. Orn. iii. p. 243, "Isle 

 de Bourbon." 



Loxia albivenfris, Herm. Observ. Zool. p. 205, " Tranquebaria " (1804). 

 Fringilla leuconota, Temm., PI. Col. 500. fig. 2, "Bengal" (1830). 

 Dorsal plumage pale-shafted ; abdominal region and flanks pure white. 

 Ceylon, Peninsular and Central India, Lower Bengal. 



(2.) Munia acuticauda, Hodgson, As. Ees. xix. p. 153, " Nipaul " (1836). 

 Munia molucca (Linn.)"? Blyth, Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 117. no. 626, nee Linn. 



* lAntea, p. 2.52.— Ed.] 



t Eel3'ing on the short preliminary diagnosis given by Brisson (/. c), I referred (Ibis, 1S69, p. 211, note) the Javan 

 species, M. hucogastr aides, Moore, to L. striata, Linu. A renewed study of the Brissonian text has enforced me to alter 

 this opinion. Unless the island of Bourbon possesses a species of Munia, or that of Java a second species, more perfectly 

 agreeing with Brisson's description, it wiU be most convenient to retain the Liuna^au title for the Indian -peninsula form, 

 if we do not reject it altogether. 



