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 131. Alcedo ispida bengalensis Gm. 



Alcedo ispida (!) Grant, P. Z.S. 1900. p. 487. ("Common in open country." — Swinhoe.) 



6 (J 9 ad. Hoihow, March 1902 (No. 16). 



7 (J? ad. Kiungehau, February and March 1902 (No. 1(5). 



All these specimens have comparatively long bills, but I find them eqnally 

 long in many Indian examples. 



132. Alcedo grandis Blyth. 



Grant, /'. Z. S, l;iiiO. p. 4S7. (First record for H;iinun,) 



2 c?cJ Mt. Wnchi, l.j, 20. xi. KM).-) (No. 272). 

 ^? Mt. Wnciii, U, 10. xi. lUnO (No. B 272). 



The specimens from Hainan are apparently iiiilistiny:uishable t'nim the topo- 

 typical Nnrtli Indian Ijirds. TIjc entire bill is blackish in the male, while in the 

 female the lower mandilile is red. 



133. Upupa epops indica Ueichenb. 



{Tjnipa imlica Rcicheuliach, Ilanill,. Sper. Orii., Samsnria^, p. 320. Tat. DXCVI. Fig. 4037 (1854— 

 " Beugalen, Nepal, Nilgcrris, Tenasserim." " Bjngal " is to be recognised as " terra typica "). 

 Upupa indica Grant, /'. Z. S. TJOO. p. 487. (" Common throughout Hainan."— Swinhoe.) 



Probably this form should be more correctly called U. e. longirostris, but I am 

 not alile, at j)resent, to decide if longirostris (from Burma, and eastwards to 

 Hainan) is separable from indica (from continental India), On the other hand, 

 the smaller Ceylon form {cei/loneiisis Rchb.) is in uo case " identical " with the 

 large one from Burma and Hainan. It is true that Salvia {Cat. B. xvi. p. in) 

 and Blanford (/>. India iii. p. 161) united all these forms, but as both these 

 authors, and cs])ecially the latter, did not distinguish geographical forms, unless 

 tliey " sjjraug into their eyes," this need not disturb us. 



AVe have received the following series : 



7 o'? No-Tai, September 1902 (No. 25). 



3 o"o Hoiliow, February 1903 (No. 25). 



2 J i^ Lei Mniraou, 30. xii. 10o2, 10. i. 1903 (No. 25). 

 1 ? Kiungehau, 26. xii. 1902 (No. 25). 



134. Nyctiornis athertoni (Jard. & Selby). 



Grant, P.Z.S. 1900. p. 486. (For the first time recorded from a specimen obtained by White- 

 head.) 



1 <?, 2 ? ? Cheteriang, January 1904 (No. lln). 

 6 <?? Lei Muimon, January 1903 (No. 110). 



2 <?? juv. Yon Boi, June 1904 (No. 243). 



3 <J(J, 1 9 No-Tai, September 1902 (No. 110). 

 1 9 Mt. Wuchi, 19. xi. 1905 (No. 110). 



The twoyouug birds show that tliis species breeds on Hainan. It is remarkable 

 that tlie tails of many of the Hainan specimens are very short. In the females the 

 tails measure from 128 to 132, and in one case to 134 ; in the males from 126 

 to 130 mm. In Sikkim the tails of four unsexed specimens measure 128 to 140, 

 in Tenasserim males about 135 (worn), females 127, Assam and (Jachar males 

 138 (in one case 135) to 141, females 137 mm. 



