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Ln Martiu-Pesclieui- hiip^ des Philippines, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 48;', 



pi. xxxvii. %. 3 (17G0). 

 Aloedo cristata, Liyin. S. N. i. p. 178 (1760) ; Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. 



p. 447 (1788); Cuv. Ith/ne Anim. p. 417 (1817j ; Vieill. N. Diet. 



d'Hid. Nat. xix. p. 4i4 (1818); Bp. Comp. i. p. 159 (1850); 



Pucher. lieo. Zool. 1801, p. 337; Sharpe, Ibi.i, 1869, p. 279. 

 Crested Kingfisher, Lath. Gen. Si/n. i. pt. 2, p. 632 (1782). 

 Alcedo vintsiuides, Byd. ^- Gerv. Rn: et Mag. de Zool. 1836, p. 30, 



pi. 74; iid. Vol/. Favorite, Ois. p. 56, pi. 22 (1839); Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 81 (1847) ; id. Cat. Fi.ssir. Brit. Mus. p. 65 (1848) ; Kaiip, 



Fam. Alced. p. 12 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 159(1850); Pollen, 



Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. p. 310 (1863); Schl. Mus. Pays-Baa, 



Alced. p. 12 (1863) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 421 ; Gra7id. Rev. et 



May. de Zool. 1867, p. 355 ; Schl. Sf Poll. Faune Maday., Ois. p. 59 



(1868) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 96, no. 1168 (1869). 

 Corythornis vintsioides, Reichenb. Handb., Alced. p. 19, Taf. 391. 



figs. 3404-5, Taf. 396. fig. 3059 (1851); Cass. Cat. Halcyon. 



Philad. Mus. p. 7 (1852) ; Bp. Comp. Volucr. Anis. p. 10 (18.54) ; 



Roc/> 4- F. Newt. Ibis, 1862, p. 271 ; Scl. P. Z. .S'. 1863, p. 162 ; 



F. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 341 ; A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 834 ; Cab. 



in Von der Dechen's Reis. p. 36 (1869) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 280; 



id. Mo7ioyr. Alced. p. 33, pi. 10 (1869) ; Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 771. 

 Corvthornis cristata, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 568, 1870, p. 398 ; id. 



Monoqr. Alced., Intr. p. vi (1871) ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 6 (1871) ; 



Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 65; Hartl. Voy. Maday. p. 78 (1877); 



F.Ncwt. P.Z.S. 1877, p. 297; Milne-Fdtmrds ^'^ Grand. Sist. 



Nat. Maday. p. 255, pi. 90. tig. 2 (1879). 



Adult. Crown of head crested, the feathers being dusky green, 

 with black shafts and a bar of black near the tip ; sides of 

 head, back of neck, and rest of upper surface of body brilliant 

 iiltramariue ; wing-coverts black, washed and spotted with ultra- 

 n)arine ; quills blackish, the inner webs bright rufous at the base, 

 the secondaries externally washed with ultramarine ; tail blue 

 above, black beneath ; chin and a longitudinal patch of feathers 

 along the sides of the back pure white ; cheeks and rest of the 

 under surface of body cinnamon-rufous : " bill black ; feet orange ; 

 iris brown '' (A. Grandidier). Total length 5'3 inches, culmeu i"2, 

 wing 2-3, tail 1, tarsus 0-25. 



Nab. Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. 



a, b. Ad. sk. N. Madagascar (A. Crosslcy). Shelley Coll, 



c, d. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Sharpe Coll. 



e, f. Ad. sk. Central Madagascar. Seebohm Coll. 



y.' 2 ad. sk. Mayotte, May 19 (r«« i»r/m). Twe-ddale Cull. 



/>. Ad. sk. [Joanna Island.] Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 



i~k. Ad. s-k. Joanna Island (Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



/. Skeleton. Madagascar. Purchased. 



2. Corythornis cyanostigma. 



Le Viutsi. riiif. Jli.sf. Nat Ois. vii. p. 205 (17^0). 

 Petit Martin-pecheiir huiit''' de I'isle de Liicuii, Dmilmt. PI. Enl. 

 viii. pi. 756. (ig. 1. 



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