!04 ALCED1NID.T5. 



strongly washed with green. Total length 13-5 inches, cnlmen 3"2, 

 wing 5'7, tail 3-G, tarsus U-45. 

 Hub. Island of Elorcs. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Flores (A. 11. Wallace : Tweeddale Coll _ 



Sharpe Coll.). (Types of species.). 



</, e. Ad. sk. riores. Wallace Coll. 



Snbsp. y. Pelargopsis burmanica. 



Ehaiuplialcyon capensis {nee L.),Heichenb. Handb.,Alced. p. IG, Taf. 



3L>9. figs. 307:2-73 (1861). 

 Halcyon leucoceplialus {nee Gm.), Horxf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E.I. Co. i. p. 123 (1854, pt.) ; Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 151, 152 ; 



tiehomb. Ibis, 1864, p. 247 ; Bearan, Ibis, 1806, p. 221, 18r57, 



p. 318 ; Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 653 ; Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 465 ; 



Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. p. 277 (1872). 

 Halcyon capensis (necL.), Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 315. 

 Pelargopsis burmanica, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 67; id. Motwgr. 



Alced. p. 109, pi. 35 (1870) ; Ball, Sir. F. i. p. 57 (1873) ; Walden, 



Ibis, 1874, p. 136; Hume, Sir. F. ii. pp. 53,165; id. op. cit. iii. 



p. 50 (1875) ; Blyth ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 70 (1875) ; Bingh. 



Str. F. v.p. 83 (1877) ; Hvme S^ Damson, Sir. F. vi. p. 73 (1878) ; 



Hurne, Sir. F. viii. p. 85 (1879) ; Binyh. Sir. F. ix. p. 154 (1880) ; 



Gates, Sir. F. x. p. 187 (1882) ; id. Ilandb. B. Br. Bur^n. ii. p. 78 



(1883) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genuv. (2) iv. p. 687 (1887) ; id. 



op. cit. V. p. 571 (1888) ; Gates, ed. Humes Nests S/- Eggs Ind. 



B. iii. p. 12 (1890). 

 Alcedo leucocephala, pt., Schl. 3Ius. Pays-Bas, Alced. Revue, p. 7 



(1874). 



Adult (type of species). Crown of head clear albescent grey ; 

 sides of neck and a collar round the latter very deep ochre ; upper 

 part of back and scapulars dull green, with a faint blue shade here 

 and there, the quills and tail-feathers being decidedly more blue ; 

 entire back and rump very rich cobalt ; entire under surface very 

 deep ochre : " bill dark red, brown at the tip ; mouth dark salmon- 

 red ; feet a paler red than the bill ; claws horn-colour ; iris dark 

 brown ; eyelids pinkish fleshy, the edges red" {E. W. Gates). Total 

 length 14 inches, culmen 3"4, wing 6, tail 3'8, tarsus 0'5. 



The colour of the cap in P. burmanica varies in intensity of grey, 

 and sometimes the specimens show an approach to the colour of 

 P. gvrial, while at other times they strongly resemble P. fraseri. 

 Those from Pegu are especially pale, but the lightest iu colour are 

 birds from the Andamans. 



Ilab. Andaman Islands, Burmah, and Tenasserim, ranging into 

 the north of the Malajan Peninsula, and eastwards into Siam and 

 Cambodia and Cochin China. 



«, b, c. (S ad. ; d. South Andamans, Feb., March Tweeddale Coll. 



$ ad. sk. {B. G. W. R.) 



e. Ad. sk. Andamans, June {R. C. Bearan). Tweeddale Coll. 



/,_(■/. (5 ad. sk. Andamans, Aug., Oct. {R.J. Wim- Hume Coll. 

 hcrley). 



