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58. Tiga javanensis (Ljnng). 



An nduK/omle. " Iris moderately dark red-brown." A young mole in fullest 

 moult, shot in tbe low country. " Iris dark brown ; feet bluish ; maxilla mostly 

 black ; mandible bluish white." This is one of the few species which were shot and 

 preserved l)y Wallace on his memorable visit to Bali. The liill se(>nis a little larger 

 in these birds than in skins from Borneo before me. 



oO. Dendrocopus analis (Horsf.). 



A series from the low country, quite like the Java birds. 6 and ? . " Iris dark 

 red-brown ; maxilla pale slaty grey : mandible slaty grey in the middle, whitisli on 

 the sides." 



6(1. Thriponax javensis (Horsf). 



(?, low conutry. " Iris pale yellow ; maxilla black ; mandible bhiekish at ti]i. 

 whitish horn-colour towards the base." 



<il. Merops philippinus L. 

 Low country. 



62. Melittophagus leschenaulti (Vieill.). 

 (."ommou in the low country. 



63. Alcedo ispida bengalensis (Gm.). 



One /email', low country. " Iris deep brown; feet coral-red ; ninxillu black; 

 mandible red ; claws black." This specimen is rather bright bluish above, almost as 

 blue as ^1. ispiJiokles Less. It seems almost fully to agree with A. isjiida var. tapro- 

 bana Kleinschmidt, Ornith. iFonafsher. II. p. 126, and is very closely allied to A. ispida 

 Jloresiana (Sharpe), Cat. B. Brit. Mm. XVII. p. 151. lu fact these birds seem to 

 bridge over to A. ispidioides Less.* 



64. Alcedo meninting Horsf. 



Three fine specimens from the low country. Two, marked S . have the cheeks 

 blue, while the tliird, aho marked cJihas the cheeks chestinit-rufous. It is evidently 

 younger, as its bill is much sliorter ; beak with the tip pale, hat the rest black ; the 

 bands on the head arc greenish blue, not deep blue as in the two others ; the back 

 of a much paler blue. This last specimen has on the label : " Beak black, tij) 

 whitish ; feet pale orange ; iris deep nmber-brown." The other two male.% : " Beak 

 black, extreme base dark red ; feet and claws coral-red; iris deep brown.'' f 



* From the inatcrhil now in the Tring Mnseum it seems evident that A. upidioidm is not more than a 

 subspecies, connected witlx A. Upida hi-ftgalvitxiK by intermediate forms. 8kins from Sambawa (Guillcmard 

 coll.) agree in every respect with the bright bird fi'om Bali, which seems to me inseparable from the very 

 remarkable .'1. ixjnila var. taprohana^ which is not rare in Ceylon ; neverthele.ss A. hpiilit bi^iujalengjs, t)ie 

 usual paler Indian form, is also not uncommonly found in Ceylon. — Waltek KoTiisciItLD. 



t It is this si)ecies, A. menlntUui Horsf., and not A. hi'iivaui (if the latter is more than a subspecies I), 

 which extends to Celebes, whence we have a number of skins. The specimens enumerated by Sharpe in 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mm. XVII. p. liil, at the end of the list of specimens of A. beanani, seem to be 

 .1 meninting, and were probably enumerated on p. 161, instead of on the foregoing page, by a mistake. — 

 Walter Kothschild. 



