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Subfamily II. DACP]L0NIN7E. 



6. CEYX. 



Type. 



Cevx, Lncip. Mem. de VInst. 1801, p. 511 C. tridactyla. 



Ceycis, Glor/er, Handb. p. 338 (1842) ? 



Tbeiosa, S'. Miil/ei; M^SS., teate Bp C. solitaria. 



Ranr;e. Indian and Indo-Malayan Regions. Moluccas, New Guinea 

 to the Solomon Islands, and New Britain. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and rump red, with a blue or lilac tinge. 

 a'. With a. spot of bright blue behind tlie ear- 

 coverts, [p. 174. 



a". Mantle blue like the scapulars tridactyla S ? ad., 



h". Mantle red like the rest of the back. 

 a'". Scapulars blue ; wing-coverts black, 

 washed with blue ; no lilac spots on 



the head dillirynni (^ ad., p. 177. 



I)'" . Scapidars rufous like the back, with 

 a black line bordering the mantle ; 



head spotted with lilac vielanura, p. 180. 



b' . With no blue spot behind the ear-coverts. 

 c". Head s-potted with lilac ; back and 



wing-coverts rufous basilanica, p. 181. 



d". Head washed with beautiful lilac like 

 the back, but not spotted. 

 c'". With more or le^s black on the 

 scapulars and wing-coverts, wliich 

 are sometimes washed with blue . . euerythra, p. 179. 

 d'". Scapulars and wing-coverts red ; 

 lower back washed or streaked witli 

 lilac-blue ; sexes alike innominata, p. 180. 



b. Head black, spotted or barred with blue ; 



lowerback and rump bright cobalt or silvery 

 blue, 

 c'. Bill red. 



e" . Scapulars entirely black, not washed 

 with blue. 

 e'" . Cheeks and ear-coverts black ; back 



silvery blue cnjeli, p. 182. 



/'". Cheeks and ear-coverts black, spotted 



with blue ; back rich cobalt wallacii, p. 182. 



/''. Scapulars washed with blue. 



g'" . Cheeks blue like the ear-coverts . . lepida, p. 183. 

 h'". Cheeks orange like the loral spot. 



a''. Head and back deep ultramarine. . inalamaui, p. 184. 

 6''. Head and back silvery blue or 



cobalt bournsi, p. 185. 



(/'. Upper mandible blackish, lower mandible 



reddish. 



g". Back ultramarine ; head spotted with 



ultramarine ; lower surface orange, 



with no conspicuous patch on the sides 



of the breast sacerdutis, p. 184. 



