NO.i657. KINGFISHER GENUS A' I 1/ /'// I I.O <> \ OBERHOLSER. 



677 



more in its larger size, very much more bluish posterior upper parts, 

 darker, more ochraceous pileum, and paler, less uniform lower parts. 

 It is smaller than either Ramphalcyon c. gurial or Rampkalcyon c. 

 burmanica, and, furthermore, departs so greatly from both in its more 

 ochraceous pileum and much darker, brighter, more bluish back, 

 wings, and tail that it is distinguishable at a glance. With the forms 

 that have no browu cap it. of course, ueeds no special comparison. 



The female of this race is very much larger than the male, and 

 usually more greenish on upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, 

 Inn there is not much other difference. 



The single adult male from Tarussan Bay, western Sumatra, is 

 like the type, though more worn. A bird from Pulo Man-alar, oil' 

 the entrance to Tapanuli Bay, apparently belongs to this form: it 

 is. according to the label, a female, and in color practically agrees 

 with a female from Tapanuli Bay; hut it is very small, about the 

 size of male- from the mainland: so that if it doe- not prove to 

 belong to another subspecies, it i- probably an immature male, not- 

 withstanding its genera] appearance of maturity. In a few exam- 

 ple- of the ['. S. National Museum -cries the pileum has a noticeable 

 wash of greenish, hut this is not con-taut enough to he diagnostic. 



RAMPHALCYON CAPENSIS HYDROPHILA, new subspecies. 



Subspt < ■■'//'■ characU rs.- Similar to Ramphalcyon capt nsis ca />< nsis, 

 from Java, hut larger; pileum with much less ochraceous, darker. 

 and more distinctly capped with brown; lower surface averaging 

 slightly darker and more uniform. 



Description.— Type, adult male. No. 1T0447. U.S.N.M.; Singa- 

 pore I-land. May 27, L899; Dr. W. L. Ahbott. Pileum and -ides 

 of head hair brown, the feather- more or less margined with hull' or 

 cream color; upper hack and superior tail-coverts bluish French 

 green; wings and tail largely fuscous, hut when closed their exposed 

 surfaces bluish myrtle green; lower hack and rump idle blue; cervi- 

 cal collar ochraceous buff; chin buff, shading into the ochraceous of 

 the remaining lower surface; lining of wing tawny ochraceous. 

 " Feel red. .law- horn brown; eyelids red; iris dark brown; hill red. 

 blackish at tip."* 



Measurements are a - below : 



Measured in the flesh i>\ the collector, Dr. w. I.. Abbott. 

 'Type. 



