144: ALCEDINlDiE. 



a SivmJi. Ibis, 1882, p. 102 ; Jow/, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. 



p. 310 (1883) ; Homeyer Sf Tancri, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, 



p. 83; Parker, Ibis, 1883, p. 103; Gates, Handh. B. Brit. Burin. 



li. p. 72 (1883) ; Blakist. intended List B. Japan, p. 13 (1884) ; 



Miirrai), J'crtebr. Faun. Sind, p. Ill (1884); Seeb. Ibis, J 884, 



pp. 2()i, 428 ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 318 ; C. //. T. Marshall, t. c. p. 409 ; 



Ouillem. P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 255, 407, 504, 547 ; C. Swinh. if Barnes, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 01 ; A. Mail. J. f. O. 1885, p. 156 ; Vorderm. N. T. 



Nederl. hid. xlvi. p. 11 (1886) ; Qicjl. l^- Salvad. P. Z. S. 1887, 



p. 681 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1886, p. 488; Reid, Str. F. x. p. 22 (1887) ; 



Oates, t. c. p. 187; Davidson, t. c. p. 296; Davison, t. c. p. 35l ; 



Tat/lor, t. c. p. 457 ; Terry, t. c. p. 471 ; Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 230 ; 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) iv. p. 584 (1887) ; Doerries, J.f. 0. 



1888, p. 65 : Vorderm. N. T. Nederl. Ind. xlix. p. 393 (1889) ; 



Ilartert, J. f. 0. 1889, p. 365 ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 157 ; Everett, 



P. Z. S. 1889, p. 225 ; id. Journ. Straits Branch P. As. Soc. 1889, 



p. 158 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, pp. 18, 283 ; Whitehead, t. c. p. 45 ; 



Oates, ed. Hume's Nests Sf Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 1 (1890). 

 Alcedo ispida beugalensis, Temm. &f Schl. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 76, 



pi. 38 (1830) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, pp. 248, 424 ; id. Ibis, 1887, 



p. 176. 

 Alcedo ispida, var. bengalensis, Raffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 293 



(1822) ; Schrenck, Reis. Amurl. -p. '2(j5 (1859) ; Radde, Sibir. Reis., 



Vdg. p. 143 (1863) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873). 

 Alcedo bispida. Less. Traite, p. 243 (1831) ; Filippi, Viagy. Persia, 



p. 346 (1865). 

 Alcedo subispida, Brehm, Vdg. Deutschl. p. 149 (1831). 

 Alcedo advena, Brehm, t. c. p. 150, Taf. xi. fig. 2 (1831). 

 Alcedo pallasi, Reichenb. Handb., Alced. p. 3, Taf. 392. figs. 3043-44, 



Taf. 393. figs. 3045-46 (1851). 

 Alcedo bengalensis, var. sondaica, Reichenb. t. c. p. 3 (1851). 

 Alcedo japonica, Bp. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 10 (1854). 

 Alcedo brachyrbyncbiis, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 51 (1855). 

 Alcedo pallida, Brehm, t. c. p. 51. 

 Alcedo bella, Brehm, t. c. p. 51. 

 Alcedo sondaica. Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 144 (1860) 



Ch-ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 95, no. 1157 (1869). 

 Alcedo minor, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 7 (1863) ; id, Voy, 



Nederl. Ind., Alced. pp. 4, 43, i^l. i. fig. 3 (1864). 

 Alcedo ispida minor, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 178 (1869). 

 Ispida bengalensis, Tacz. J. f. O. 1875, p. 254 ; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. 



Frcmce, i. p. 135 (1876). 

 Alcedo sindiana, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 168 (1873). 

 Dacelo minor, Snellem. in Veth's Midden- Sumatra, Vog. p. 36 



(1887). 



Adult male. General colour above greenish blue, with slight indi- 

 cations of streaks of lighter blue on the scapulars ; entire back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts rich cobalt-blue ; wing-coverts greenish 

 blue, the median and greater coverts with spots of greenish cobalt ; 

 bastard-wing, primary- coverts, and quills blackish, externally blue; 

 tail-feathers blue with black shafts ; crown of head greenish blue 

 banded with dusky blackish, each blue bar having a central shaft- 

 streak of greenish blue, the blue of tbe nape and hind neck brighter 

 and not so green ; lores blackish, surmounted by a broad streak of 

 orange-rufous ; sides of face and ear-coverts orange-rufous ; cheeks 



