( 480 ) 



etc., July 1890; Hartert, Aff^ Vogels. Senckeiih., \>. '.i», note Kil ; Idem,.!./. 0., 

 1891, p." 293: Gates, Faun. Brit. IncL, vol. ii., pp. 4U, 5ii (1890); Salvad., Ann. 

 Mm. Civ., xxxii., p. 129 (1892) (//. tyfleri, and not N. aztirea, on Engano !) ; 

 and other iilace.>». 



43. Hirundo rustica g:utturalis (Sci>p.). 

 Une male each from .'^irhassen ;iii(l Hiuiirunin. both tintlimlttcdly helonjriuj; 

 to the eastern form of the SwaHow. 



44. Eurylaemus ochromelas (.Kutll.). 

 This hinl, which i.s i-ommon throughout the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and 

 Sumatra, was not rare on Bunguran. Perfectly identical with a iinmber of specimens 

 from Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



4.5. Pitta moluccensis (.^'. L. S., Miill.). 

 A tine 7nale from Bunguran. From Burmali along the Malay Peninsula to 

 Borneo and Sumatra, where it is common in the north-eastern parts, and the only 

 species of the genus which I met with in Deli and Lankat. 



4*!. Alcedo ispida bengalensis (tim.). 



One sjiecimen from Bunguran. 



I shall always consider A. henijaletigis a subspecies of A. ispiihi, but 1 shall 

 never agree to unite it .<««.< faron with .1. i.^iiiiki. The most interesting fact, 

 that over an enormous area the small heiujali'n.'ii.'s form occurs alone, while in 

 others the large ispida alone is found, cannot be denied, and the fact that, where 

 their areas overlap, ever}' intermediate form is common, does not alter this 

 fact. If we unite both under one name we simply neglect the interesting fact 

 of the existence of two forms, while the existence of the intermediate forms 

 forbids their being treated as species. 



47. Ceyx euerythra Sharpe. 

 One female from Bunguran, which Dr. Sharpe kindly named tor me CVy.r 

 euerythra. See Cat. B., xvii., p. 179, where this name is published for the first 

 time. The distribution is given as : " Malacca, Sumatra, Labuan, N.W. Borneo, 

 Palawan, Mindoro." My sjiecimen is yellow below, and there is a bright yellow 

 spot behind the ear-coverts. The entire top of the head and a line along the 

 middle of the back and rump and the Hpi>er tail-coverts are beautifully and 

 strongly washed with lilac. The scapulars are entirely cinnamon red, without 

 any black, the rectrices cinnamon red with yellow bases, the secondaries reil, 

 with a black streak along the middle, the jirinniries chiefly black. 



4ii, Carcineutes ptUchellus (Ilorsf.). 

 A pair from Bunguran. Identical with Malacca skins. It is remarkable that 

 in this case too the Malaccan species, and not C. mel(infl)i!s (Bp.), its Bornean 

 representiitive, is found on Bnngnran. 



4'.». Halcyou pileatus fHodd. . 

 From Bunguran. (S. India. Imlo-Mahiyan countries to Celebes and t'hina.) 



