Additional remarlcs on the Avifauna of, Sfc. 307 



g'uished from cheela by the barrings of the throat and breast, 

 being- almost, (or quite in some specimens) obsolete, and by its 

 smaller size, wing' varying from 17 to 18. It is quite clear, I 

 think, that spilogaster is distinct alike from hido, and from our 

 bird. 



I had named this latter, 8. Bavisoni, after my zealous and 

 enthusiastic curatoi-, and entertained no doubt of its being new, 

 but in the last Ibis, Lord Walden (1873, p. 363) describes two 

 young birds which, if I understand him, are of the cheela and 

 not the hido type, (with wings 12'6'2 and 13'25,) under the 

 name of pallidus, which might possibly, be the young of our 

 Andaman bird. 



My only specimen is an adult, and consequently it is im- 

 possible to institute an accurate comparison with Lord Walden^s 

 descriptions, but so far as aiitj comparison is possible, the birds 

 disagree. 



It is of course not 8. rufipecius, Gould [Cir cactus hacha 

 celebensis, ScUegel,) a small bird, wing 13 or 13, with, in the 

 adult, a blackish, chin and throat ; breast, a brownish cinnamon 

 colour, unbarred, and the rest of the lower parts, a somewhat 

 rufous brown, broadly and regularly barred with white. 



It is not S. holospilus, Vigors, P. Z. S., 1831, p. 96, Gr. and 

 Mitch., pi. 7, distinguished at once by its profusely spotted 

 mantle. 



Nor would it seem to agree with 8. 8alaenses, Schlegel Valk, 

 V. T. 23, 4, 5, 6. If therefore it is not palUdus, Walden, 

 which I hardly think, it must stand under the above suggested 

 name of Bavisoni. 



The CoUocalias I have already fully discussed (of. supra., p. 394). 



Alcedo bengalensis appears to be even more common than 

 asiatica, though several specimens of both are included in the 

 collection. 



The Pratincola, I believe to be indica ; only a single specimen 

 however has been sent, and that seems to differ a good deal, fx-om 

 any of indica which at the moment, away from my museiim, I have 

 available for comparison, noteably in the very long broad and 

 conspicuous whitish supercilliary streak; if distinct, it may 

 stand as albosupercilliaris. 



I cannot make sure (the birds are in the winter plumage, and 

 I have no others at hand) whether the little shore plovers are 

 jiuviatilis, or philippinus. 



Gallinago Horsfeldii [stemtra, Kuhl.) appears common. Query, 

 has not this hitherto done duty for the common snipe ? Does 

 the latter really occur in these islands ? 

 . Bemiegretta Greyi ; by this name I intend to signify the 



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