22 BULLETIN 98, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Family CUCULIDAE. 



UROCOCCYX ERYTHROGNATHUS (Hartlaub). 



Phoenicophaeus erythrognathus Hartlaub, Syst. Verz. Naturhist. Samml. Ge- 

 sellschaft Mus. [Bremen], pt. 1, 1844, p. 95 (Sumatra). 



One adult male, No. 170932, U.S.N .M., from Pulo Siantan, taken in 

 heavy forest, September 11, 1899. Length 477 mm.; "iris blue; 

 naked orbital skin red; bill green, base dull red; feet dark leaden." 

 In both size and color it is identical with birds from the Malay Penin- 

 sula. 



Dr. C. Parrot's recent reference of this species to the genus Rliam- 

 phococcyx 1 is not valid, since Urococcyx is generically distinct, as the 

 structure of the nostrils well shows. 



Family ALCEDINIDAE. 



SAUROPATIS CHLORIS CYANESCENS Oberholser. 



Sauropatis chloris cyanescens Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, Feb- 

 ruary 8, 1917, p. 189 (Pulo Taya, eastern Sumatra). 



Two specimens of this recently described race are in the collec- 

 tion — an adult male from Pulo Mobur, August 26, 1899; and an 

 immature male from Pulo Mata, August 28, 1899. The latter is 

 rather more greenish on the upper parts than the adult, has the 

 crown somewhat more brownish, the forehead with whitish edgings, 

 the white feathers of the breast tipped with dusky; and it is also 

 somewhat smaller. Both examples are indistinguishable from 

 Bornean specimens. Doctor Abbott saw this kingfisher also on 

 Pulo Siantan, August 19 to September 13, 1899. 



The generic name Sauropatis Cabanis and Heine is, as already 

 shown, 2 the proper one for the present species. Of the generic dis- 

 tinctness of this group from Halcyon and EntomotJiera 3 there can be 

 little doubt. 



Measurements of specimens of Sauropatis chloris cyanescens. 



1 Abhandl. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II KL, vol. 24, 1 Abth., 1907, p. 185. 



ithe ::, Austral Avian Record, vol. 1, No. 5, Dec. 24, 1912, pp. 108-100; Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 52, Februarys, 1917, p. 189. 



3 See Oberholser, Proc. U. S Nat. Mus., vol. 48, May IS, 1915, p. 642. 



4 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



