152 ALfKuiNin.r. 



2. Alcedo ispidoides. 



Aloedo ispida (nee L.), Temm. PL Cvl. iv. livr. 46, note (1824). 

 Alcedo ispida, var. nioluccana, Lesson, J'oi/. Cuquille, i. pt. 1, p. 343 



(1S2()). 

 Alcedo ispida, vav. des Moluques, Less. t. c. i. pt. 2, p. 00-') (182()) ; 



Gray, R Z. S. 1860, p. 348. 

 Alcedo beng-alensi8 (wee Gm.), Less. Traite, p. 243 (1831, pt.) ; S. 



Mill/. Verh. nat. Gesch. Land- en Volkcnk. pp. 87, 110 (1830-44). 

 Alcedo ispidoides, Lesson, Comjpl. Buff. ix. p. 345 (1837); Bp. Consp. 



Valuer. Aiiis. p. 10 (18o4) ; Salvad. Ami. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 652 



(1875), viii. p. 374 (1876), x. p. 300 (1877) ; id. Orn. Papuasia e 



delle Mohicche, i. p. 408 (1880) ; Metjer, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 



xxxi. p. 774 (1881) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Sue. xvi. p. 428 (1882) ; 



Blasius S^ Nehrk. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxii. p. 418 (1882) ; 



Blasius, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 703 ; Finsch, Vog. der SMsee, p. 8 (1834) ; 



Meyer, Sitz. Abhandl. Ges. Isis Dresden, 1884, Abth. i. p. 19 ; id. 



Abbild. Voqel-Sk. Lief. vi. Taf. Ixiii. tig. 1 ; Blasivs, Zeitschr. qes. 



Orn. iii. p. 92 (1886); Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 192; Salvad. Ay g. 



Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 53 (1889). 

 Alcedo ruoluccensi.s, BIyth, J. A. S. Beng. xv. p. 11 (1846) ; id. Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 49 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 158 (1850): 



Iteiclienb. Handb., Alced. p. 5 (1851); Bp. Consp. Valuer. Anis. 



p. 10 (1854) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 25 ; Roienb. N. T. Nederl. 



Lid. XXV. p. 231 (1862) ; id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 118; Finsch, Neu- 



Guinea, p. 151 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 95, no. 1156 (1869); 



Sharpe, Monoyr. Alced. p. 21, pi. 4 (1870); Walden, Trans. Z. S. 



viii. p. 45 (1872) ; Roscnb. Iteist. Geelvinkbai, p. 6 (1875) ; Cab. 



^- Reichen. J. f.O. 1876, p. 323 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 105 ; Salvad. 



t. c. p. 194 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 071 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 10 ; 



Meyer, Lsis, 1879, p. 64 ; L. C. Layard, Lbis, 1880, p. 299 ; Guil- 



lem. P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 547, 566. 

 Alcedo minor moluccensis, Schl. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, Alced. p. 3 (1863) ; 



id. Voy. Nederl. Lnd. Alced. pp. 5, 44, pi. i. fig. 4 (1864). 



Adult male. Similar to A. ispida, or rather to the smaller form 

 usually called A. hengcdensis, but easily distinguished by the colour 

 of the sides of the face and ear-coverts, which are entirely Idue like 

 the cheeks and crown : " bill black ; legs dark brown ; iris brown " 

 (C W. Woodford). Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 1-55, wing 2-85, 

 tail 1-2, tarsus 1*4. 



The young bird differs from the adult in having the fore neck and 

 cliest obscured by dusky margins to the feathers ; the scapulars arc 

 blackish slightly washed with blue. 



Hah. From Celebes throughout the Moluccan and Papuan Islands 

 to the Solomon Archipelago. 



a. Ad. sk. Celebes. Dr. A. B. Mever [C.]. 



6, c. rf 5 ad. sk. Celebes ( W. T. Frascr : Tweeddale Coll. 



Sharpe Coll.). 



d,e.(Sa,d.et]u\'. Menado. Gould Coll. 



sk. 



/. J ad. sk. Menado (A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Moluccas (Sharpe Call.). Tweeddale Coll. 



h. 2 iid. sk. Bourn. Wallace Coll. 



i. $ ad. sk. Amboina, March 29 (//w«7/ : Tweeddale Cull, 



Sharpe Coll.). 



