1874.] BIEDS FEOM THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 267 



92. Dromas ardeola, Paykull, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1805, p. 108, pi. 8. 



" Macpherson Strait, Andamans : March 4, d , legs pale bluish slate, bill black. S. Andaman : 

 March 12, c? , iris dark brown, legs pale slaty blue, bill black." 



"Andaman: June 25." {Whnherley.) 



Two examples, shot on March 4, have the feathers of the occiput and nape brown-centred ; 

 those of the interscapular region and the primaries dark brown, rather than black, mixed with 

 grey. The lengthened tertiaries are ashy rather than white. A third has the head pure white 

 and the black plumage as in full dress ; but the tertiaries are tinged with ashy. The birds 

 killed on the 12th are in full black-and-white plumage. The example, however, obtained on 

 June 25 is in immature plumage. 



93. % Htpot^nidia striata (Linn.), S. N. i. p. 263 (1766). 

 JRallus striatus, Linn. {X), Ball, J. A. S. B. 1872, p. 288. no. 57. 



" S. Andaman : April 25, ? , bill pinkish plum-colour, tip and culmen slate-colour, iris red, 

 legs dull pinkish buff; May 5, 6 , bill purplish lake, tip and culmen slaty brown, iris red, legs 

 pinkish buff." 



The crown of the head only is dark chestnut-brown in the specimen noted as being of a 

 female (conf. Ball, I. c). 



The type of the Linnean species was obtained in the Philippines ; and until Indian and 

 Malayan are compared with Philippine examples their identity must remain in doubt. These 

 Andaman individuals differ from the continental and Malayan form by being of a much darker 

 iron-grey underneath, by the olive parts of the upper plumage being darker, and the chestnut of Ibis, 1874, 

 the head and nape of a deeper shade, almost brown on the crown. It may be that they belong 

 to true IT. striata ; but if it should prove otherwise, I propose for this Andaman race the title 

 of H. ferrea. 



94. Erythra phcenicura (Forster), Zool. Ind. p. 19, pi. 9, " Ceylon " (1781). 



" S. Andaman : March 10, April 4, ? , iris reddish brown, legs greenish yellow, bill pale 

 green, red at base of upper mandible ; May 7, ? ." 



95. Totakus calidris (Linn.), S. N. i. p. 252. no. 19 (1766). 



" S. Andaman : Feb. 20, 2 , iris brown, legs and feet dull orange-red, base of lower mandible 

 red." 



"Port Blair, South Andaman: May 31, July 12." {Wimlerlei/ .) 



96. Tringa subarqdata (Giildenst.), Nov. Com. Petr. xix. p. 471, pi. 13 (1775). 

 " S. Andaman : March 22, d , legs and feet greenish black." 



97. Triivga crassirostris, Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 107, pi. 64, " Japan, Java, Borneo " 

 (1846). 



Sclioeniclus magmis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 39, "Australia;" Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 33. 

 Tringa magna (Gould), Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 596. no. 211 (1856). 



