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but running much further down the outer web, where it is 

 suffused with French grey. There is much more white therefoi'e 

 on the wing of this species than on that of recwrv'trostris, in 

 which moreover the seventh and not the sixth primary is the 

 first white tipped one. Nearly the whole of the lesser coverts 

 from the carpal joint along the ulna dark brown ; beyond these 

 extends a broad white wing band, and then below this the rest 

 of the secondary and median coverts are pale French grey. 

 In recurvirostris the dark brown is not so dark and is confined to 

 a narrow baud above the white band, which latter is not near so 

 bright or pure as in the present species. The elongated ter- 

 tials are a grey brown intermediate in color between the French 

 grey of the secondary greater coverts, and the earth brown of 

 the back. Two or three of the shorter tertials, not seen till the 

 more elongated ones are raised, are greyish towards the tips 

 and margins, and with one or two pale brown ziff-zao- bands 

 towards the tips following the contour of the feathers. The 

 upper tail coverts are grey brown paling towards the tips where 

 they are banded with irregular zig-zag darkish brown lines. 

 The tail feathers are broadly tipped with blackish brown, edged at 

 the points in some specimens with yellowish white. Inside the 

 broad blackish brown tippings is a broad white baud narrowest 

 on the central, broadest on the external tail feathers, below which 

 the basal portions of the feathers are greyish brown with irregu- 

 lar zig-zag darker brown lines. The breast is a pale French grey, 

 the feathers darker shafted and fringed towards the tips with 

 dingy yellowish white. The upper abdomen, sides of the abdo- 

 men, dingy yellowish white, the feathers with faint traces of 

 rather broad zig-zag imperfect grey bars. Centre of the abdomen, 

 vent and lower tail coverts dingy yellowish white, or even on the 

 latter pale fawn color ; sides of the body, axillaries and entire 

 wing lining (except the lesser lower coverts along the ulna and 

 at the carpal joint, which are brown,) pure white. 



The occurrence of this species in the Andaman group and so 

 far north as the Great Cocos, while it has never yet been 

 noticed, so far as I am aware, at the Nicobars, in Sumatra, 

 Java or Borneo, is somewhat remarkable, and should it prove 

 ultimately that this species really does not occur in these latter 

 islands, it will be excessively puzzling. 



860.— Cinclus interpres, Lin. (7). 



This species, though nowhere numerically abundant, was 

 seen by us on almost every one of the islands of the Bay of 

 Bengal, Prcparis, the Great Cocos, various parts of the 



