1. rELARGOrsIS. 101 



/. d ad. sk. Zamboanga. Voy. II.M.S. ' Chal- 

 lenger.' 



(/, h. (S 2 ad. sk. Zamboanga, March, May (A. Tweeddale CoU. 



H. E.). 



i. Ad. sk. Sulu Islands, Jan. {H. Bur- H. Veitch, Esq. [P.]. 



bidffe). 



k. Ad. sk. Salok Solo, Sulu Islands Tweeddale Coll. 



{A. B. Meyer). (Type of species.) 



4. Pelargopsis gurial. 



Halcyon leucocephala (nee Gm), 3IcClell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 156 ; 

 Grai/, List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 55 (1848, pt.) ; Horsf. Sf Moore, 

 Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 123 (1854, pt.) ; Jerd. B. Ltd. i. p. 222 



(1862); Bearan, Ibis, 1865, p. 407 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 347. 

 Halcyon capensis {nee L.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 231 (1840) ; 



Blyth, Aim. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 94 (1843) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. 



etc. Nepal ]))-es. Hodys. p. 66 (1846) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 92, 



no. 1103 (1869). 

 Halcyon gurial, Pears. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 633 (1841) ; Blyth, Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 47 (1849) ; Bp. Co7isp. i. p. 165 (1850) ; Irby, 



Ibis, 1861, p. 228 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 30. 

 Alcyon capensis vel princeps, Hodys. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mhs., 



Passeres, pi. 15. fig. 1 (no. 221) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 



(1844). 

 Halcyon brunniceps, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 143 (1844). 

 Ilhamphalcvon gurial, Eeichenb. Handh., Alced. p. 16, Taf. 426. fig. 



3158 (I8yl, nee Taf. 399. fig. 3075). 

 Pelargopsis gurial, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 156 (1860) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 66 ; id. Monoqr. Alced. p. 105, pi. .34 



(1870) ; Holdsrc. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 423; Himie, Nests Si' Eyqs Ind. 



B. p. 105 (1873); Ball, Str. F. ii. p. 387 (1874); Fairb. Str. 



F. iv. p. 254 (1876) ; Hume, Str. F. v. p. 18 (1877) ; Fairb. t. c. 



p. 394; Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 203 (1878); Cripps, t. c. p. 259; 



Let/ge, B. Ceylon, i. p. 294 (1878) ; Hunie, Str. F. viii. p. 85 



(1879) ; Brooks, t. c. p. 467 ; Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 49 (1880) ; 



Butler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 19 (1)^80) ; Davidson, Str. F. 



X. p. 296 (1882) ; Davison, t. c. p. 351 (1883) ; Stciiih. ^- Barnes, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 61 ; McGregor, Str. F. x. p. 436 (1887) ; Hume, Str. 



F. xi. p. 44 (1888) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests Sj- Eggs Ind. B. iii. 



p. 11 (1890). 

 Alcedo leucocephala (pt.), Schl.Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 13 (1863) ; 



id. Vog. Nederl. Ind. pi. ii., left-hand lower figure (1864). 



Adult male. Crown of head and nape dark chocolate-brown ; sides 

 of neck and a collar encircling the latter, pale ochre ; upper portion 

 of the back and scapulars dull green, the rest of the back rich 

 greenish cobalt ; wing-coverts dull green with a faint blue lustre ; 

 quills black, externally greenish blue like the tail ; under surface 

 of body light ochreous buff, paler on the throat. Total length 14 

 inches, culmen 3"1, wing 0'4, tail 3'6, tarsus O'o. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 14 inches, 

 culmen 3-3, wing 5"8, tail 3*7, tarsus 0'6. 



Young. Similar to the adults, but having dusky margins to the 

 feathers of the hind neck and breast. 



