190 ALCEDINID.E. 



7. CEYCOPSIS. 



Type. 

 Ceycopsis, Scdvad. Afti li. Accad. Torino, iv. p. 447 (18G9). C. fall ax. 



liancje. Confined to Celebes and the Sanghir Islands. 

 1. Ceycopsis fallax. 



Dacelo fallax, Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. iii. p. 187 (18Gfi). 



Ceycopsis fallax, Salvad. Att'i R. Accad. Torino, iv. p. 447 (1869) ; 



Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. p. 135, pi. 48 (1869) ; Meyer, Ihis, 1879, 



p. 63. 

 Ceyx fallax. Gray, Hand-l. B. ili. p. 227 (1871). 



Adult. General colour above deep cinnamon-rufous ; lower back, 

 rump, and u]3per tail-coverts cobalt, with a beautiful lilac gloss, the 

 tail-coverts lilac-blue ; wing-coverts duller cinnamon than the back, 

 spotted with lilac ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, the secondaries rufous at the ends of the outer webs, the 

 innermost cinnamon-rufous like the back ; entire crown and nape 

 black, each feather tipped with bright ultramarine-blue ; lores and 

 sides of face cinnamon-rufous, washed with Hlac on the cheeks and 

 ear-coverts ; behind the latter a band of white feathers ; throat 

 white ; remainder of under surface of body rufous with a shade of 

 beautiful lilac, especially on the lower breast and abdomen, which 

 are isabelline ; under wing-coverts and axillaries rufous, as well as 

 the quill-lining : " bill brilliant red, only the middle of the upper 

 mandible blackish : feet and claws brilliant red ; iris dark brownish " 

 {A. B. Meyer). Total length 4*7 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 2-4, 

 tail 1, tarsus 0-35. 



Young. More dusky on the upper surface than the adult, much 

 browner ; the lower back and rump brilliant silvery cobalt, but 

 without lilac shading ; the under surface is also more ferruginous, 

 without lilac shades. 



Hab. Celebes and Sanghir Islands. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Menado, N. Celebes. Tweeddale Coll. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Sanghir Islands [A. B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll. 



8. ISPIDINA. 



Type. 



Ispidiua, Kaujj, Fam. Eisv. p. 11 ( 1848) I. pieta. 



Jianr/e. Confined to Africa and Madagascar. 



Key to the SjJecies. 



ft. Back bright ultramarine. 

 a'. Abdomen orange-rufous. 



a". No blue spot behind the ear-coverts. . picta, p. 191. 



b". A blue spot behind the ear-coverts . . natalcnsis, p. 193. 



//. Abdomen white leucoya^fer, p. 193. 



b. Back lil ;c-red nuidayascnrien>iis. p. 194. 



