154 



ALCEIUXID.K. 



YouiKj. llather greener than the adult, and distinguished by the 

 bars on the chest, the feathers being fringed with black at the 

 ends. 



The male from Kilimanjaro has the wing smaller (3-15 inches), 

 and is richer in colour than South-African specimens. 



Hah. South Africa and East Africa as far north as Abyssinia. 



Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 F. Campbell, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



«. Ad. st. 



b. Ad. St. 



c. Juv. sk. 



d. e. Ad. sk. 

 /. Juv. sk. 



(/. c? ad. sk. 



h. (S ad. sk. 



i. cJ juv. sk. 



k, I. Ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 m. Ad. sk. 

 n, o. Imm. sk. 



p. (S ad. sk. 

 q. c? ad. sk. 



r. Juv. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 



t. Ad. sk. 



u. Ad. sk. 



South Africa. 

 South Africa. 



South Africa. 

 Orauge Kiver. 

 Xnysna, Jan. 10 (C. J. 



Andersxoti). 

 Eland's Post (T. C. At- 



niore). 

 Elaud's Post, Jan. 6 (T. 



C. A.). 

 AlgoaBav,Sept. 20 {Sharpe 



Coll.). " 

 Natal {T. Ayres). 



Durban,Natal( W.Gordc/e). 

 Upper Uralaas IJiver ( W. 



Gordye). 

 Transvaal {T. Ayres). 

 Rustenburg, E. Transvaal, 



July 4 (T. Ayres). 

 Zambesi. 

 Shire Cataract (Sir J. 



Kirk). 

 Piver Lumi at Rombo, 



Kilimanjaro district. 

 Abyssinia. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Shellev Coll. 

 Shelley CoU. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Gurney Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Livingstone Exped. 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



4. Alcedo euryzona. 



Alcedo cyanocephala {nee Shair), Bajfl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 p. 293 (1820). 



Alcedo euryzona *, Teinm. PI. Col. text in livr. 86 (1830) ; Grca/, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 81 (1847) ; id. Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 03 (1848) ; 

 Kaup, Fam. Aired, p. 17 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 169 (18o0) ; 

 Beichenh. Handb., Alced. p. 418 (1851); Cass. Cat. Halcyon. Philad. 

 Mns. p. 1 (1852) ; Bp. Consp: Vol. Anis. p. 10 (1854) ; Horsf. ^ 

 Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 128 (1854) ; Schl. Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, Alced. p. 10 (1863) ; id. Toy. Nederl. Ind., Alced. pp. 7, 45, 

 pi. i. figs. 1, 2 (1864) ; Blyth, Ibis, I860, p. 30, 1860, p. 348 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 95, no. 1153 (1869) ; Sharpe, Monoyr. Alced. p. 29, 

 pi. 8 (1870) ; Sahad. Ucc. Born. p. 95 (1874) ; Hume, Str. F. iii. 

 p. 318 (1875) ; Tireedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 297 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. 

 pp. 49, 162 (1879) ; Salvad. Ann. Mns. Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 193 

 (1879) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 248 ; Gates, Handb. B. Brit. Burm. 

 ii. p. 75 (1883) ; Blasius, J. f. 0. 1884, p. 217 ; Vordcrm. Nat. 



Mispviiited " cn/cona " in PL Col. 



