184 ALCEDINID-ai. 



Ilcih. Moluccas ; Lslsinda of Aniboiiia, Ceram, Matabello, Amblnu, 

 Great and Little Obi, Ternate, Tidorc, Halmahera, Eatchian, and 

 Morty or ilorotai. 



a-c. Ad. pk. Moluccas (Sharpe Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



d. Jad.sk. Amboina (^. i2. Wallacf). Gould Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Amboiiia. Vov. II.M.S. ' Chal- 



lenger.' 



/-/(. Ad. sk. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



», h. Ad. sk. Ternate. Hume Coll. 



/. c? ad. sk. Ternate (Sharjje Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



m. S ad. sk. Ternate {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



n-q. Ad. ; r. Batchiau (A. R. W.). Wallace Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



s,t. KA.sk. Halmahera (.^. 7;. TD. Wallace Coll. 



10. Ceyx sacerdotis. 



Ceyx sacerdotis, Ramsay, Jmirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvi. p. 128 fl882). 

 Ceyx solitaria {nee Temm.), Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 193 (Guadal- 

 canar). 



Adult. General colour above black, washed with deep ultramarine, 

 the bead and wing-coverts spotted with this colour ; lower back 

 brighter and more cobalt-blue ; quills and tail black ; a lorge loral 

 spot of orange-rufous ; sides of face and cheeks deep ultramarine- 

 blue ; on the sides of the neck a band of yellowish white ; throat 

 yellowish white : under surface of body orange, with a small blackish 

 patch on the sides of the upper breast ; under wing-coverts orange ; 

 quills blackish below, rufous along the inner web : " bill, legs, and 

 iris red " (C. M. Woodford). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 1-45, 

 wing 2-3, tail U-l»5, tarsus 0-35. 



Hub. New Britain and the Solomon Islands. 



a. 2 imm. sk. New Britain. Dr. Kubary [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Aola, (4uadalcanar, June 27. C. M. Woodford, Esq. [C.]. 



11. Ceyx malamaui. 



Ceyx malamaui, Steere, Lid Mamm. 4'" Birds Steere LJ.iped. Philipp. 



p. II (July 1890). 

 Ceyx sulueusis, Blamis, J.f. O. 1890, p. 141 *. 



Adidt male (type of G. suluensis). General colour above brilliant 

 silvery cobalt, rather deeper blue on the scapulars and centre of the 

 back ; crown of head like the back, each feather with a distinct 

 median streak of glistening blue ; wing-coverts black, light cobalt 

 at the ends, with a median line of silvery blue ; quills and tail 

 black, slightly washed with blue ; a very large loral spot of deep 

 orange-rufous ; sides of face and ear-coverts brilliant blue like the 

 head ; on the sides of the neck a streak of buffy white ; cheeks deep 



* This part of the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' bears the date of April 1890, 

 but Was received in England Cor the first time in November. 



