i5. ALCEDO. 



159 



settle the point. The same excellent observer also forwarded a 

 Tnf^l l-"" ^? " '''^'^ ""'''' "^*^ ^" ivory-white tip, and fL 

 the s^d. n? ir f ^^^^'•^If ^tJings it appears that in sime at least 

 the Mde. of the face are blue, though the majority of young birds 

 have rufous eheeks and ear-coverts and generallj^ reddish bll 



that th/l/ f^^'^'""/ ^^r^''^ ^"'^ '"^ *'^^'^°^«« it i« -ident 

 manv o? f h TT '^ f^'' '^ '^' ^^'' '' S'-'^'^^^^lv assumed, as 

 sT;o^ of 1 TV? ^^' '^f'' ""'^ ear-coverts rufous sprinkled with 



spot, of blue. Ihe scapulars are black in the young birds as are 



tt°i ^^^' ""^ '^ '''' '''r ^' ^^^ -^1^1^- ^--t' -'^ the kue on 

 rne Dack is more silvery cobalt. 



to wl' f ™"\«°»;|^'^i-» Tenas^erim down the Malayan Peninsula 

 to Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Palawan, and Celebes. 



(t- d ad. sk. 



/>■ 6 ad.: c. J 



inim. sk. 

 <?. 2 ad. sk. 



e. 2 ad. sk. 

 /. c^ ad. sk. 



ff, '', i- d; J.2 



ad. sk. 

 k, I. Ad. ^k. 

 ?n. Juv. .sk. 

 n. Ad. sk. 

 o, p. 5 ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 q, r. Imm. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 



t, II. Ad. et 

 imm. sk. 



v-h'. Ad. et 

 imm. sk. 



c- d imm. sk. 



d', e. Ad. sk. 

 f- 2 imm. sk. 



5;',/''. d" ad.sk. 



i',k'. Ad. et 

 imm. sk. 



i', m'. Ad. sk. 



n\ Ad. sk. 

 o'. c? imm. sk. 

 p'. Imm. sk. 

 ?', »•'. Ad. sk. 



[Pothanore, Madras, Oct. 13 (G. 



R. Theobald).']^ 

 Bankasoon, Tenasserim, Jmie 

 ^ ( W. Darison). 

 Kossoum, Upper Malay Peninsula, 



Aug. 22 (J. Darlim/). 

 Salang, March 26 {J.'D.). 

 Poungyah, July 29 (J. Z>. ). 

 Klaug,'_ March, April, July {W. 



Davison). 

 Penang. 



Peuang {A. E. Wallace). 

 Penang (A. R. W. : Shaviye Coll.). 

 Malacca {I)r. Cantor). 



Mfdacca. 



Malacca {A. R. TV. -. Sharpe 



Coll.). ^ 



Malacca {Dr. Maimjay). 



Malacca, July to Sept. ( W. Da- 

 vison) . 

 Mount Ophir. 

 Singapore. 



Singapore Island, Aug. 2 ( JJ'. D.). 

 Johore, March ( Tf '. D.). 

 Padang, Sumatra [Leyden Mm.). 



Lampong, S.E. Sumatra {E. C. 



Buxion). 

 Sumatra ( Carl Rock). 

 Sumatra (A. R. Wallace). 

 East Java (A. R. W.). 

 Java (Dr. Horsfieh). 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 India Museum. 



Piuwill Coll. 

 Tweeddale Ccdl. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



"Wallace Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 India Museum. 



(Type of species.) 



* This specimen seems to me to be a skin of Malaccan make and it bears oti 

 the label the name of Alcedo hengalcms. I therefore think t b. t tbp H W 

 bas been changed by some a.-cident, and that the sk n Lv r teS clme frtn 

 Madras. If ,t was procured in the latter locality, the flct is most^xTraord^ 

 nary, as the bird ,8 undoubtedly a true A. mcninti.ig, and not lt',,va^ 



