6. cEvx. 185 



orange-rufoiis ; throat ■whitish; retnaincler of the under surface 

 orange, the sides of the upper breast deeper orange- rufous, as also 

 the under wiug-coverts and axillaries ; quills dusky helow, rufous 

 aloug the inner web : "bill and feet coral-red; iris brown'' {Dr. 

 Flatea). Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 2-G5, tail 0-95, 

 tarsus U 4. {Mvs. Brunsv.) 



Young. Similar to the adult, but not so richly coloured, and with 

 a shorter and more dusl<y bill, whitish horn-colour ; scapulars black, 

 ■washed with blue ; the entire back silvery white with a greenish- 

 blue tinge ; head and wing-coverts black, spotted with bright cobalc ; 

 Bides of face and under surface as in the adult. 



Hah. Sulu Islands and island of Easilan. 



a. Ad. sk. Isabella de Basilan, Nov. 14. F. S Bourns, Esq. [C.]. 



12. Ceyx bournsi. 



Ceyx boumsii, Steere, List Birds Sf Mamm. Steere Exped. Philip- 



pines, p. 10 (,1890). 

 Ceyx margaretliffi, Blasius, J. f. 0. 1890, p. 141 *. 



Adult female (type of 0. inargaretlue). General colour above rich 

 ultramarine-blue, the head like the back ; wing-coverts black, washed 

 with ultramarine on the edges ; quills and tail-feathers black, 

 slightly washed with ultramarine; a large loral patch of orange- 

 rufous ; sides of face and ear-coverts rich ultramarine like the 

 crown ; cheeks deep orange like the loral patch ; on the sides of 

 the neck a streak of buffy white ; throat white ; under surface of 

 body orange, lighter on the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries like the breast ; quills blackish below, rufous along the 

 inner web : " bill and feet coral-red ; iris brown " (Dr. Flaten). 

 Total length .5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 2-0, tail 0"9, tarsus 0-4. 

 (iliws. Brunsv.) 



Young. Similar to the adult, but less brilliant and with a duller 

 red bill; the head and scapulars and wing-coverts black, with blue 

 ends to the feathers ; the blue of the back lighter than in the adult, 

 and inclining to cobalt on the lower back ; loral spot as large as in 

 the adult. 



JJab. Basilan and Sulu Islands. 



13. Ceyx cyanipectus. 



Ceyx cyanopectus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 33 ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 

 App. p. 5 (1848) ; Wurdlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1884, p. 332, pi. ix. ; 

 id. Ibis, 188(3, p. \oii (iluoila) ; Steere, List Birds iSf Mamm. 

 Steere E.vped. I'/ii/ipp. p. 10 (pt. 1890: Marinduque). 



* The first, appearance of this name was in a newspaper, the ' Braunschweig- 

 isciie Anzeiger ' of tlie 15th of May, 1890. If this publication be deemed ad- 

 missible, wliich English rules of nomenclature do not allow, then Ulasiua' 

 name «ould supersede tbut given by Steere. The description of the latter 

 author was issued in July, whereas the April ' Heit' of the ' Journal fiir Orni- 

 thologie ' was not recei\ed in England till November. 



