( 571 ) 



A young bird has the "beak jiartly lilackish" : the crowu (hirker bruwti aii<l 

 without aw/ (jrcen iras/t ; feet not so bright red ; feathers of tlie lireast margined with 

 black. 



40. Alcedo ispida floresiana (Sharpo). 



One from Tarn bora, wonderfully bridging over the way from A. ispida Ijenr/alensiti 

 to ..4. iijjida ispidioidcs. (This is the Alcedo liengalensts of Guillemard's list.) 



*41. Ceyx innominata hJalvad. 



Six skins from the low country of Bima and Tambora. c^ ad. •' Iris dark 

 umber-brown ; beak and feet coral-red." A. female has the beak and feet "orange," 

 a young bird " pale sordid brown." 



None of these birds is so strongly washed with lilac above as some of my Bali 

 birds, but it seems to me that the stronger lilac wash comes with age. 



I cannot see the differences between C. eueri/tJint Sliarpe (^Cut. B. XVII. p. 170) 

 and C. innominata. There seems to be no constancy in the colour of the upper parts, 

 older birds being more lilac, nor any in the more or less black scapulars and wing- 

 coverts. A specimen from Bongnran, kindly named for me by Sharpe himself as 

 C. eaenjthra, has no black wliatever on scapulars and wing-coverts. C. dillw>/i>jii 

 is probably only subspecitically separable from (.'. tridactyla, on the one hand and 

 C. innominata ( = euenjthra^ on the other hand. Some of the specimens called 

 C. emrythra in the British Museum are inseparable from C. dillunjnni, others 

 inseparable from C. innominata. 



42. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.). 



In the low country at Bima and Tambora. Heads of the two sent lighter than 

 in the Lombok specimens. 



*43. Halcyon sanctus Vig. & Horsf. 

 Tambora, low country and upwards to about 3000 feet. 



*44. Monachalcyon fulgidus ((iouldj. 



Common in the low country and hills of Tambora, to about ;5000 feet. Young 

 birds and nestlings have the back and wing-coverts more or less black, the breast 

 washed with ochreous brown. 



45. Eurystomus orientalis australis (Sw.). 



An adnlt male, shot in the low country of Tambora, agrees better with 

 E. australis than with E. orientalis, but stands somewhat between the two forms. 

 The birds of the Lesser 8unda Islands and Celebes seem to connect E. orientalis 

 and E. australis. See on this vexed question, among other places, A. B. Meyer, 

 Mitth. zool. Mus. Dresden, I. 187.5, p. 18 ; id., Verh. zool. hot. Ges. 1881, pp. 763, 

 764 ; Shar])e, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XVII. ]\ 34 footnote, p. 38 (intermediate 

 specimens !) ; Uresser, Monoijr. Conieiidac. Sharpe, in the Catalogue of Birds, 

 XVII. p. 37, does not mention the Lesser Sunda Islands at all as the habitat of 

 E, au.stralis, but from his synonymy juid liis enumerating the specimens from the 



