no. 1657. KINGFISHER GBNl 8 1! I l//'// l/.rvo\ OBERHOLSER. 



679 



pkalcyon c. huntianicn by smaller size, deeper brown pileum, and 

 darker, brighter, more bluish back, wings, and tail; and still more 

 readily from R. c. gurial by far more deeply, more uniformly colored 

 under parts, in addition to the same characters by which it is sepa 

 rated from R. c. burmaniea. It differs much from both Ramphaleyon 

 c. simalurensis and Ramphaleyon c. isoptera in its darker pileum. 

 decidedly brighter, more bluish back and wings, and additionally 

 from the latter in its darker, more uniform lower surface. It i- more 

 Dearly like Ramphaleyon c. sodalis and R. c. nesoeca, but is smaller, 

 has a much more deeply colored pileum and usually darker ventral 

 surface. With the several form- that have a plain ochraceous or 

 bully pileum no special comparison of R. c. malaccensis is needed, 

 while the differences that separate it from Ramphaleyon c. cyanop- 

 t< nj.r have already been fully discussed. 



There is rather more than usual purely individual variation in this 

 race, affecting the depth of color on the pileum as well as the lower 

 parts, but not so much the posterior upper surface. There is some- 

 times a slight gloss of greenish on the pileum. These variations may 

 account for the supposed occurrence of Ramphaleyon capensis <<i/» n- 

 sis (olim fi-iiscri) within the territory of h\ c. malaccensis; for since 

 these two form- intergrade. and as they do not migrate, they, of 

 course, nowhere live in the same locality. Sexual distinctions — the 

 larger size, and duller, less bluish posterior upper parts of the fe- 

 male — are about as usual, but are rather less pronounced than in the 

 forms from some of the islands off the western coast of Sumatra. 



Measurements given above are from the subjoined specimens: 



[J.s \ \l No. Sea 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



153787. 



l.".:(7s_'. 

 L53784. 

 175055. 

 178961.. 





100235. - 



163783... 

 153785 



Trong. Lower Siam 



do 



do 



Packa, Tringanu, Malay Peninsula. 

 Jambu Luang, Johore, Malay Pen- 

 insula. 



[Malacca?] 



Trong, Lower Slam 



do 



do 



July 6,1896 

 May 10,1896 

 June ■:'. 1896 

 Sept. 2C». I'.mki 

 Aug. 2,1901 



Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do 



July 4,1896 

 Ma\ 22,1896 

 June 27, 1896 



Dr. W. I. 

 Do 

 Do. 



Abbott 



RAMPHALCYON CAPENSIS FLORESIANA (Sharpe). 



Pelargopsis florisiana Shabpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., L870, p. 68 (Florls). 

 Pelargopsia saaak Vordebman, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., LIV, 1895. p, ■"■•". i 

 (Laboean hadjl, Lombok Island). 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Ramphaleyon capensis ma- 



laca wis, but top and sides of head strongly washed with green : lower 

 parts paler ochraceous. 



° See page 676. 



