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the Andamans, and that I flushed from the side of a fresh water 

 pond at Port Mouat." 



It does not differ from Indian killed specimens. 



912 bis.— Euryzona Canningi, Tytler. (0.) 



For original description, vide Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 86. 



This large and handsome rail is either excessively rare, or 

 else conceals itself so effectually as to be very seldom seen. 

 Altogether I believe from first to last only four specimens have 

 been procured, but these were all shot or captured at Bamboo 

 flat or other similar localities in the neighbourhood of Mount 

 Harriet. We never saw the bird, and Davison, who made 

 special exertions to secure a specimen, only once caught sight of it. 



913— Hypotsenidia striata, Lin. (6.) 



I am very doubtful whether the Andamanese specimens are 

 really referable to this species ; they are of precisely the same 

 type ; but they are infinitely darker colored, and very much 

 larger than any Indian specimens I possess. 



In none of my Indian specimens is the wing quite 5*2 

 inches ; in none of the Leyden Museum specimens do the wings 

 reach to 5 2 ; but Jerdon doubtless gives the wing at 5*25. 

 Now in the Andaman birds the wings in five specimens vary 

 from 5 '2 to 5 5 ; the sixth, a small female, has the wing barely 5"0. 

 Jerdon gives the total leugth at 10"5, and this agrees with my 

 Indian specimens, whereas the Andaman birds are from 12 to 12 5 

 in length. In our Indian birds, the bill never appears to exceed 

 1*65 ; in the Andamanese bird it runs to 1*8, though of course 

 some are smaller. 



As regards color, the upper surface is all but black, banded, 

 of course, with white, and so too are the abdominal region and 

 flanks ; there is much less white on the throat of the 

 Andamanese birds, the front of the throat and breast are very 

 dark ashy instead of a very pale ashy grey as in my Indiau 

 specimens. If all these differences are constant, the Andaman 

 bird will have to be separated, and may stand as obscuriora ; at 

 present I am miserably off for these rails having only one 

 Madras, two Malabar, one Ceylon, six Andaman, one Malaccan, 

 one Thyet Myo, and three Rangoon specimens, and I therefore 

 hesitate to separate positively the Andamanese form. 



The following are dimensions of specimens measured in the 

 flesh :— 



Length, 12 to 12*5; expanse, 185; wing, 5'45 to 5*5; 

 tail, 2 to %'%d ; tarsus, l - 55 to 175 ; bill, from gape, 1 75 



