loG ALCEDixir.i;. 



5. Alcedo grandis. 



Alcedo graudis, Bltjth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 190 (1845) ; id. Cat. 

 B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 49 (1849) ; Id. Ibis, 1865, pp. 30, 31, 1866, 

 pp. 348, 363; Gray. Hund-l. B. i. p. 36, no. 1163 (1809) ; Sharpe, 

 Monoip: Alced. p. 19, pi. 3 (1870) ; Gcndd, B. Asia, i. pi. 52 

 (1870) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 4 ; Godw.-Amt. J. A. S. Benrj. xlv. 

 p. 09 (1876) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 86 (1879) ; Oatvs, ed. Hume's 

 Nests I- Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 4 (1890). 



Alcedo euiyzona {nee T.), Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 231 (1862). 



Adult. Head crested, black, with transverse bars of pale greenish 

 cobalt, each bar having a little streak of silvery white down the 

 centre ; scapulars blackish, washed with deep green ; whole of the 

 back rich silvery cobalt, deepest on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 wing-coverts blackish, washed with dark greenish blue, each feather 

 having a small mesial streak of silvery blue ; quills blackish, the 

 inner web pale rufous at the base ; the outer web of the secondaries 

 edged with dark greenish blue ; tail indigo above, black beneath ; 

 cheeks and ear-coverts blackish, longitudinally streaked with silvery 

 cobalt ; lores black, surmounted by a small spot of orange-buff ; a 

 longitudinal stripe along the sides of the neck and the throat white, 

 tinged with yellowish buff; rest of the under surface of the body 

 dark rufous : bill black ; feet red. Total length 8 inches, culmen 

 1"7, wing 3-85, tail 1*65, tarsus 0"35. 



Hah. Sikhim Terai, Eastern Himalavas, eastwards to the Dafla 

 Hills. 



a. Ad. sk. Native Sikhim, March (i. MandelU). Hume Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Sikhim (L. MandelU). Hume Coll. 

 e. Ad. sk. Darjiling. Hume Coll. 



fi. Alcedo guentheri. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



Alcedo quadribrachys (wee B;j.), Verr. Bei\ et Mag. Zool. 1851, 



p. 267 ; Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 134, cum fig. ; Cass. Cat. 

 ■ Halcyon. Philad. Mus. p. 2 (1852) ; Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 34 



(1857, pt.) ; Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 34; Heine, J.f. O. 



1860, p. 187; Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 105; DuChailhi, Equat. 



Africa, p. 472 (1861) ; Gray.. Hand-l. B. i. p. 95, no. 1159 (1869) ; 



iiharpe, Monogi: Alced. p. 25, pi. 6 (1870, pt.) ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. 003 ; Sharpe Sf Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 31 (1876) ; 



Socage, Orn. Angola, p. 537 (1881); Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. 



xvii. p. 435 (1884) ; Eeichcn. J.f. O. 1887, p. 307, 1890, p. 116. 



Adult. Head, neck, cheeks, and scapulars rich iiltramarine ; the 

 whole of the back and upper tail-coverts rich cobalt ; a small spot 

 in front of the eye and a longitudinal patch of feathers along the 

 sides of the neck white tinged with rufous ; wing-coverts blackish, 

 washed with ultramarine ; quills blackish, the inner web pale fulvous 

 at the base, the outer web edged with blue ; tail blackish, margined 

 with blue ; throat Avhite ; rest of the under surface of the body deep 

 rufous ; a patch of feathers on each side of the ujjper part of the 



