OF THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 497 



Corydallas ; but then what can be said to the remark as to uni- 

 ting striolata and rufula? You might as well talk of uniting 

 No. 3 and No. 5 shot, or Aquila chrysaetos and Aguila heliaca. 

 Surely Lord Walden never can have seen true striolata. The 

 only conclusion I can draw is, that he must have got specimens 

 of the slightly different Malayan race of C. rufula, called, I 

 believe, by Eyton Anthus malaiensis, which occurs in Tenasserim 

 and Assam, and very possibly below Darjeeling. If this be so, I 

 quite agree that it does not deserve specific separation, and we 

 ought in that case to enter rufula in our Andamanese list, but 

 until the obscurity which now involves the facts is dispelled, it 

 would be premature to do so. 



701.— Munia striata, Lin. 



Lord Walden, in the Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 1873, p. 488, 

 separates the Andaman race of this species, which I designated 

 (ante, p. 257) nonstriata, as fumigata. Though my article was 

 in type months before Lord Walden's name was published, the 

 latter has priority, and those who consider this race as entitled 

 to specific separation, a point in regard to which I have never 

 felt certain, must call it henceforth fumigata, Wald. 



The following are his remarks on the species : — 



" Above dark brown, deeper on the head ; rump white ; 

 quills above and externally deep brown, on the borders of the 

 inner webs pale tawny rufous, most developed on the secondaries 

 and tertiaries ; tail jet black, the middle pair of rectrices being 

 slightly elongated ; chin, throat, and cheeks concolorous with 

 the head ; ear-coverts brown, with pale edgings ; breast, abdo- 

 men, and flanks dingy white, the breast feathers with brown 

 spots ; thigh and under tail-coverts brown, with rusty margins. 



" Wing, 2-00 inches; tail, 175 ; tarsus, ! 50. 



" Described from examples obtained by Lieutenant R. W. 

 Ramsay in the island of South Andaman. Nearly allied to 

 M. acuticauda, Hodgs., but to be readily distinguished by the 

 absence of pale shafts to the dorsal plumage." 



720.— Emberiza pusilla, Pall 



Lieuten ant Wardlaw Ramsay shot a female of this species on the 

 28th of March below Mr. DeRoepstorffs house on Mount Harriet. 

 Davison saw and noted it, but I did not include it in our list, 

 not being sure that he had correctly identified it. Lord Walden 

 now coufirms the identification, and this species must now be 

 included in the Avifauna of the Bay of Bengal. 



