318 Lord Walden on a Collection of Birds 



belief that they belonged to one and the same. For Pallas 

 (Zoogr. /. c.) identifies T. salina with the T. ruficollis of his 

 earlier work, although, curiously enough, he attributes the 

 title of ruficollis to Latham, the English author having only 

 borrowed that title and the description from Pallas. It may 

 be here observed that the Japanese specimen mentioned by 

 Mr. Sharpe (Dresser's Birds of Eur. T. minuta, p. 5) as being 

 T. albescens is nothing but T. 



59. Gallinago stenura (Kuhl), Bp. Annali di Storia Na- 

 turale, Bologna, iii. fasc. 14, " Sunda Islands" (1830) ; Isis, 

 1833, p. 1077. 



" S. Andaman : J , Dec. 19, 23, 27 ; 6 , Feb. 5 : iris bright 

 brown ; legs and feet greyish horn-colour ; bill, basal half light 

 horn, remainder brown : $ , Feb. 6 ; iris brown ; legs and feet 

 pale green ; bill light horn, remainder brown. Port Mouat, $ , 

 Feb. 5 : iris bright brown ; legs and feet greyish green." 



60. Demiegretta sacra (Gm.), S. N. i. p. 640 (1788), ex 

 Lath. Synop. v. p. 92, " Otaheite." 



Demiegretta concolor, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1846, p. 372, " Ar- 

 racan, Nicobars." 



Herodias andamanensis , Tytler : Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 333, 

 " Andamans." 



Herodias concolor (Blyth), Ball, Str. Feath. i. p. 87. no. 122. 



Demiegretta greyi, G. R. Gray, ap. Hume, op. cit. p. 307. 



" Ross Island, Dec. 20, Feb. 4 : iris pale yellow ; bill brown, 

 mandible tinged with yellowish green ; legs bright green, 

 soles yellow." 



Moulting from ferruginous brown into uniform ash-colour, 

 a narrow white line extending from the chin down the neck 

 for about one and three quarters of an inch. 



It has recently been asserted by Mr. Hume (Str. Feath. i.p.254) 

 that the Ardea asha, Sykes (P.Z.S. 1832, p. 157, "Dukhun"), 

 and the species described by Dr. Jerdon (Birds of India, iii. 

 p. 747) belong to Ardea gularis, Bosc (Actes de la Societe 

 d'Hist. Nat. de Paris, i. pt. i. p. 4, pi. 2, " Senegal," 1792*), 



* Only the first part of this work, edited by Aubiri-Louis Millin, and 

 published in " l'an quatrieme de In liberte"," appeared. It consists, in ad- 



