268 ON BIRDS FEOM THE ANDAIIAJST ISLAJS^DS. [1874. 



Tringa tenuirostris (Horsf.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1SG3, p. 315. no. 298 ; oj). cit. 1871, p. 408. 



no. 560. 



Trinaa tenuirostris (Horsf.), Gould, Handbook B. of Australia, ii. p. 260, sp. 520 (1865); 

 G. K. Gray, Hand-list, iii. p. 49. no. 10302 (1871). 



" S. Andaman : March 14, $ , iris dark brown, bill black, legs greenish brown." 



Both Professor Schlegel (M. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 28) and Mr. Harting (m epist.) are of 



opinion that Totanus tenuirostris, Horsf. Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 192, "Java," refers to Totanus 



stagnatilis, Bechstein, and not to this bird. Mr. Harting most justly observes that Horsfield 



(Z. c), having classed the Javau bird under the genus Totanus, would never have used the 



Ibis. 1S74, expression " the beak is more slender than in the European species of this genus" if he had been 



P' ^'^^' describing from an example of Tringa crassirostris. 



98. Aedea pmPUREA, Linn. S. N. i. p. 23. no. 10 (1760). 

 "Port Blair, S. Andaman." {Whnherley.) 



99. Heeodias intermedia (Wagler), Isis, 1829, p. 659, "Java." 



Ardea egretf aides *,Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 374, " Sicile," errore (1840); Faun. Jap. 

 Aves, p. 115, pi. 69, "Japan, Java" (1S4-) ; Jerdon, Birds of India, iii. p. 745. no. 926 (1864). 



" S. Andaman : Feb. 28, d , iris yellow, orbital skin bright yellow, bill dark yellow, legs 

 greenish black." 



The type of this Egret was sent to Leyden by Von Hasselt from Java, with the manuscript 

 name of Ardea intermedia. Wagler, however, was the first to describe the species and publish 

 the title (/. c.). 



100. Heeodias gaezetta (Linn.), S. N. i. p. 237. no. 13 (1766). 



Ardea nigripes, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. iv. p. 376, " L'Inde et les lies Sondaiques, la Nouvelle 

 Guinee." 



" S. Andaman : Dec. 17, 6 , iris yellow, feet green, legs and bill black, skin at base of bill 

 yellow." 



This is the true A. nigripes, Temm., and also of Bonaparte (Consp. ii. p. 119. no. 3), but 

 not A. nigripes, Temm. apud. Bp. torn. cit. p. 116 {co)tf. Schlegel, Mus. P.-Bas, Ardea', pp. 14 

 &19). 



101. Aedeol.-^. geati (Sykes), P. Z. S. 1832, p. 158. no. 176, " Dukhun." 



Ardeola leucoptera (Bodd.), Jerdon, Birds of India, iii. p. 751. no. 930. 



" S. Andaman : March 10, 6 , iris pale yellow, bill orange-yellow, legs pale green ; 

 April 24, ? ." 

 Ibis, 1874, In non-breeding-plumage. I have adopted the title referable to the continental species on 



P" the assumption that the Andaman bird belongs to it, and not to either the Malaccan form (the 



true A. leucoptera) or to that of Java [A. speciosa). 



* Not of S. G. Gmelin, Eoise, ii. p. 103, pi. 25, whicli is a ejiionyin of Ardea alba, Linn. 



