496 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA 



I notice that though Lord Walden says he pointed out the dif- 

 ference between the Andaman and Malayan Bush-Thrushes, he 

 did so in the April number of the Ibis; I pointed it out in the 

 January number of Stray Feathers (p. 221), and more- 

 over, I pointed out (which he failed to do) the special cha- 

 racteristic of the adult Andaman Bush-Thrush, viz., the two 

 brown eye-stripes, analogous to, thought smaller and feebler, 

 than those of G. cyanotis. 



369 Us.— Turdus obscurus, Gm. 



I erroneously entered this bird as pallidus, Gm., which is 

 daulias, Tem., quite a different bird. The present species is the 

 one we get from Malacca and Tenasserim, of which modestus, 

 Eyton, rufulus, Drapiez, &c, are synonymes. 



520 Ms.— Locustella subsignata, Hume. 



Lord Walden gives lanceolata, Tem., from the Andamaus, and 

 unites with this my subsignata ; he may possibly have obtained 

 lanceolata from the Andamans (though, until some better autho- 

 rity where this group is concerned examines the specimens, I 

 must defer including the species in our list), but he is, I think, 

 very certainly in error in uniting subsignata with lanceolata. 



What I take, at any rate, to be the true lanceolata, the bird we 

 have from Tenassei'im and Sumatra, is certainly distinct from 

 subsignata. However, it may be argued that my lanceolata is 

 not true lanceolata, and so to settle this point I have just sent a 

 specimen home to Mr. Bowdler Sharpe, of the British Museum. 



599.— Corydalla Richardi, Vieill. 



Lord Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 140, includes G. striolata, Blyth, 

 amongst the birds of the Andamans, and states that he is u dis- 

 posed to doubt the propriety of separating this form from C. 

 1-ufida /" 



Now, of course, I cannot tell what bird Lord Walden has got 

 hold of; but all the seven specimens we obtained, and the like 

 number subsequently sent us, are the Indian Richardi, with 

 tarsi from 1*12 to 1*25, and hind claws from 0/7 to 1*2. 

 Clearly none of these are striolata, in which the tarsus varies 

 from 0-97 to 1*08, and the hind claws from 0-44 to 0'56. 



However, Lord Walden may have rightly identified striolata, 

 and there is no excuse for any one's failing to do tins, since the 

 publication of my friend Mr. Brooks' paper (Stray Feathers, 

 I., p. 358), clearly setting forth the differences between our three 



