38 BULLETIN 159, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



•ALCEDO ATTHIS BENGALENSIS Gmclin 



[Alcedo] bengalensis Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 450, July 25, 1788. 

 ("Bengala.") 



This race of kingfisher has been recorded by Doctor Hartert ®^ 

 from Bunguran Island. 



Family MEROPIDAE 



■MEROPS VIRIDIS Linnaeas 



[Merops] viridis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 117, Jan. 1, 1758. 

 ("Java, Benghala.") 



Recorded from Bunguran Island by Doctor Hartert " as Merops 

 sumatranus.^* 



Family BUCEROTIDAE 



HYDROCISSA CONVEXA ZAMELAENA, new subspecies 



Subspecijic characters. — Similar to Hydrocissa ^' convexa convexa, 

 from Sumatra, but somewhat larger; black area on terminal part of 

 bill larger and extending broadly below the line separating the casque 

 from the maxilla. 



Description. — Type, adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 174704, Pulo 

 Ldngung, Natuna Islands, June 14, 1900; Dr. W, L. Abbott. Upper 

 parts, middle tail feathers, and greater part of wings black, with a 

 metallic gloss of dusky bluish green ; inner edges of wing quills fuscous- 

 black; broad tips on the primaries and secondaries, and all the rest 

 of the tail feathers cream white; mastax, chin, and throat black; 

 jugulum black with some greenish sheen; remainder of lower parts 

 white; bill mostly white, but the base of the mandible is black, and 

 a broad black band extends along the lower side of the casque from 

 its tip back about to its middle and extends over on the upper median 

 portion of the maxilla. 



The six specimens obtained by Doctor Abbott are as follows: 



Adult male (type), U.S.N.M. No. 174704, Pulo Lingung, June 14, 

 1900. Length in flesh, 864 mm. "Iris dark red; feet dark leaden." 



Adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 174703, Pulo Lingung, June 17, 1900. 

 Length in flesh, 838 mm, "Iris dull brownish red." 



Adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 174706, Bunguran Island, June 28, 

 1900. Length in flesh, 870 mm.; weight, 2K pounds. "Feet dark 

 leaden; naked orbital skin dull blue; angles of jaws white." 



Juvenal male, U.S.N.M. No. 174705, Pulo Lingung [June, 1900]. 

 "Iris grayish white; feet pale leaden; bill pale greenish 3'ellow (nearly 

 jade color), a pale brownish patch each side of upper mandible." 



" Nov. Zool., vol. 1, no. 2. p. 480, Apr. 16, 1S94. 

 " Nov. Zool., vol. 2, no. 3, p. 474, Aug. 17, 1895. 



•« For the change of name, see Hartert, Nov. Zool., vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 482-483, Dec. 15, 1910. 

 " For the change of the generic name Anlhracoceros to Hydrocissa, see Oberholser, Proc. Biol. See. Wnsh- 

 ington, vol. 34, p. 136, June 30, 1921. 



