MAY, 1909. BIRDS FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA DEARBORN. 159 



78. Ispidina picta (Bodd.). 



Todus pictus Boddaert, Table du Planches Enlumine'ez, 1783, p. 49. 

 i specimen, Apr., Vol. 



79. Halcyon chelicuti (Stanley). 



Alcedo chelicuti Stanley, Salt's Travels in Abyssinia, 1814, Appen- 

 dix, p. 56. Abyssinia. 



9 , 9 , Oct., Tana River. 

 9 , Feb., Lake Elmenteita. 



See HARTERT, Novitates Zoologicce, 1900, p. 34, geographical 

 variation in size; NEUMANN, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1905, pp. 188, 

 189, variation; ERLANGER, ibid. 1905, pp. 448, 449, unites all the 

 forms under chelicuti. 



80. Halcyon semicaeruleus (Forsk). 



Alcedo semic&rulea Forskal, Descriptiones Animalium, 1775, p. 2. 

 Yemen, Arabia. 



9 , Oct., Tana River. 



c?, 9, Nov., Athi River. 



The standing of H. s. hyacinthinus Reichenow, is apparently un- 

 certain. 



See NEUMANN, Journal filr Ornithologie, 1905, pp. 189, 190; 

 ERLANGER, ibid. p. 446. 



81. Halcyon albiventris orientalis (Peters'). 



Halcyon orientalis Peters, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1878, p. 255. 

 Mombassa, British East Africa. 



9 , Nov., Athi River 



See ERLANGER, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1905, p. 447. characters 

 and distribution. 



Family Bucerotidse. 



82. Bucorax cafer (Schl.). 



Buceros carunculus, var. cafer Schlegel, Museum Pays-Bas, 1862, 



p. 20. 



9 , Nov., Athi River. 



9 , Feb., Lake Elmenteita. 



