t 



.3. .iLCEDO. 153 



k. S ad. sk. Wahai, N. Ceram {A. R. Tweeddale Cull. 



Wcdlace). 



I. S ad. sk. Hahuahera (Sharpe Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



Batchian. Gould Coll. 



East Cape, S.E. New C. Ilunstein [C.]. 



Guinea. 



Duke of York Island. Rev. G. Brown [C.]. 



Duke of York Island {Hev. Tweeddale CoU. 

 G. Broum). 



q, r. (S ad. sk. Ada, Guadalcaoar, April, C. M.Woodford, Esq. 



July. [C.]. 



3. Alcedo semitorquata. 



Alcedo semitorquata, S'jcalns. Zool. lUustr. iii. pi. lol (1823) ; Rilpp. 



Sijst. Uehei:i. p. 20, pi. 7 (1845) ; Ch-ai/, Gen. B. i. p. 81 (1847) ; 



id. Cat. Fkur. Brit. Mus. p. 63 (1848) ; Katip, Fam. Alced. p. 17 



(1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. lo9 (1850); Bekhenb. Handb., Alced. p. 5, 



Taf. 395. figs. 3054-55 (1851); Cass. Cat. Halcyon. Philad. Mus. 



p. 4 (1852) ; Jard. Edinb. New Phil. Journ. (2) iii. p. 242 fl8o6) ; 



Ileugl. Sysf. Zrehers. p. 19 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 34 



(1857) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 46 (1850) ; Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. 



Hein. Th. ii. p. 143 (1860) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 105 ; ScM. 



Mtts. Pai/s-Bas, Alced. p. 10 (1863) ; Heu(/l. J.f. 0. 1864, p. 331 ; 



Lat/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 65 (1867) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 95, no. 



1160 (1809); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr.' i. p. 179(1869); Blanf. 



Geo!. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 325 (1870) ; Finsch S)- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 



p. 859 (1870) ; Gwney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 58 (1872) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 281 ; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 425 ; Bocaye, Orn. 



Angola, p. 95 (1871) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 291; S/ielley, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 244 ; Butler, Feilden, Si Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 206 ; Sharpe, cd. 



Bayard's B. S. Afr. pp. 107, 806 (1884) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 



Genov. (2) i. p. Ill (1884) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 291. 

 Alcedo azureus. Less. Traite, p. 243 (1831) ; Pucker. Rev. et Mag. 



Zool. 1853, p. 385. 

 Alcedo quadribracbys {nee Bp.), Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 245, 1873, 



p. 258 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 66 (1867) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, 



p. 283. 



Adult male. Head and nape deep Line, banded with bright blue, 

 the sides of the head above the ear-coverts being of an exceedingly 

 rich blue colour ; back very rich cobalt; the sca])ulars washed with 

 bright blue ; wing-coverts bine, with spots of greenish cobalt ; quills 

 blackish, externally greenish blue, the secondaries deeper blue on 

 the outer web ; tail-feathers deqi blue, blackish towards the base 

 and along the shafts ; lores black, with a whitish streak above 

 them ; sides of face and ear-coverts black washed with blue, the 

 cheeks brighter blue ; on the sides of the neck a band of yellowisli- 

 wbite feathers tinged with orange ; tliroat white with a yellowish 

 tinge ; remainder of the body orange-buff, with a large patch of blue 

 at the sides of the upper breast ; under wing-coverts deep orange- 

 buff : " bill black ; feet light red; iris dusky umber" (T. Ayres). 

 Total length 7'o inches, culraen 1-95, wing 3"35, tail 1"5, tarsus 0-4. 



1 have no doubt but that, as in all other .species of Alctdo, the 

 female of the present species has the base of the bill red, but I have 

 not seen an authentic specimen. 



