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p. 537), nor in any way " intermediate between C. euerythra and (J. IriAadyla" as 

 stated by Sharpe {Cat. B. XMI p. 180). How these theories were evolved I can 

 hardly understand, as the description of Strickland is very clear, and the misleading 

 note about the lores could easily have been made clear by a look at the type in 

 Cambridge. 



''. Ceyx rufidorsa innominata Salvad. 



C'ey.r hiiwmhmla Salvad., Alii R. Acmd. Torino IT (1869) p. 465 (Malacca?, Singapore, Sumatra 



Bangka, Giava, Bawian, Borneo, Lombock, Sumbawa, Flores). 

 Ceijj- iimomiimto Salvad., Ann. Mas. Gcuova XXIV (188(5) p. .'i37(riiava, Lombock, Siimbava, Flores. 



Type said to be from Java !). 

 Cryx immmimita Sharps, Cat. B. XVII (1892) p. 180 (Java, Lombock, Flores). 



E.xactly like C. rvfidorsa rufidorsa, only slightly smaller, with a distinctly 

 smaller and less powerful bill, easily seen in comparing a series. Wing .55 to .59, 

 bill from end of feathering on the forehead 31 to 33 mm. 



Hah. Java (typ.), Kangean, Bali, Lombok, 8umba\a, Sumba, and Flores. 



This form is only a very closely allied subspecies of the typical Ceyx rvfidorsa, 

 and probably neither Salvadori nor Sharpe would have purposely named it if they 

 had understood the actual value of C. rvfidorsa Strickl. From Salvadori's original 

 description of C.innominata* in 1869,1 would certainly have taken the latter to 

 be a synonym of C. trklactyla, as he gives as its localities " jNIalacca ?, Singapore, 

 Sumatra, Bangka, Giava, Bawian, Borneo, Lombock, Sumbava, Flores." He clearly 

 unites the northern larger and the southern smaller forms, though he noticed already 

 that the latter are smaller.f From this I should certainly have taken Singai>ore, the 

 first undoubted locality, as the typical habitat. In 1886 {Ann. Mus. Gmova XXIV 

 p. 537), however, the author states that his C. innominata inhabits onlj' Java, 

 Lombok, Sumbava, and Flores, and that the type is a specimen from Java, No. 2309 

 of the Turin Museum. 



c. Ceyx dillwynni Sharpe. 



Ceyj- (lillwijniii Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1868 pp. 591, 593 (typ. Labuan). 



Cey.e nhaqiei Salvad., Alii R. Accad. Torino IV p. 663, c. tabula (1869) (Sarawak, Borneo). 

 "Intermediate between C. dillwynni and C. ruerylhm" Sharpe, Col. B. XVII (1892) p. 178 

 (Labuan and Borneo). 



Adult. Head, back, rump, tail, and undersurface as in C. mjidoraa, only 

 forehead with a tiny blue- black spot. On the sides of the neck, behind the 

 ear-co\erts, nearly always a conspicuous deej) blue patch. Wing-coverts nearly all 

 black, washed with blue; only those near the bend of the wing red, or tipped 

 with red. Scapulars black, washed with blue. Underside yellow, throat lighter, 

 almost white. 



Juv. Underside yellowish white, breast cinnamon-red, scapulars red, mostly tipped 

 with black, rectrices more or less mi.xed with black, wing-coverts mostly red. 



Hah. Borneo, Labuan, Palawan, Malay Peninsula % and (teste Sahadori) also 

 Nias. (Probably to be found in Sumatra.) 



• Cevx was the husband of Alcyone, and most clearly a male per»on. It is therefore didiciilt to 

 understaod why all authors treat poor Ceyx as a temininum. I do not now (as explained above) alter 

 the specific names, treating them as names merely and not as adjectives, which so few of them are. 



t " Mi ^ parso che quelli di Flores, 8umbawa, Lombock e Giava siano notevolmente piii piccoli di 

 quelli di Borneo e di Singapore " (p. 467). 



I Principally (; or only) the eastern side. 



