196 ALCEDINIDiE. 



along tlio inner web. Total length 4 inches, culmcn 1-15, -wing 1'75, 

 tail 07'5, tarsus 0"3. 



Hab. Forests of the Interior of the Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk Fantee. SLarpe Coll. 



2. Myioceyx lecontii. 



Ispidina lecontei, Cass. Proc. P/ii/ad.Acad. 1856, p. 158; Hartl. Orn. 



W.-Afr. p. 35 (1857) ; DuChaillu, Equat. Afr. p. 472 (1861) ; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 283; id. Mmoyr. Alced. p. 149, pi. 54 



(1871). 

 Alcedo lecontei, Grm/, Hand-l B. i. p. 96, no. 1174 (1869). 

 Myioceyx lecontei, Sharpe, Mo)ir>(/r. Alced. lutr. p. xiii (1871). 



Adult male. Front black (without spots); crown and occiput 

 bluish black, with small spots of light blue, with a purple tinge ; a 

 narrow partially concealed collar of rufous on the nock behind ; 

 wing-coverts black, with small purplish-blue spots : quills bluish 

 black, edged Avith rufous on their inner webs ; tail bluish black ; a 

 small spot in front of the eye, cheeks, breast, and abdomen yellowish 

 rufous, darker on the breast ; throat white ; under wing-coverts 

 rufous : upper mandible bluish black, the point white, the iinder 

 mandible at the base yellow, then dark brown towards the point, 

 but at the tip white ; legs yellow. Total length 3" 75 inches, wing 

 1-8, tail 0-9, bill in front 1." {Cassin.) 



Hab. Gaboon. 



10. SYMA. 



Type. 



Syma, Less. Voy. CoqmUe, i. pt. 2, p. 688 (1828) S. toroloro. 



llange. Confined to the Papuan Islands, and the Cape York Pen- 

 insula of Australia. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Bill yellow, -with a black mark near the end of 



the culmen torotoro, p. 196. 



b. Bill yellow, without any black mark on the 



culuien flavirostris, p. 197. 



1. Syma torotoro. 



Syma torotoro, Zess. Voy. Coquille, Zool. A this, pi. 31 (1826); id. 

 in Fcruss. Bull. Sci. Nat. xi. p. 443 (1827) ; id. Voi/. Coquille, i. 

 pt. 2, p. 689 (1828) ; id. Traite, p. 244 (1831) ; id. Compl. Buff., 

 Ois. p. 653 (1838) ; i?;). Comii. i. p. 153 (1860) ; Eeiche7ib. Handh., 

 Alced. p. 43, Taf. 430. fig. 3173 (1851) ; Bj). Consp. Voluci: Atiis. 

 p. 9 (1854) ; Wall. Ann. ^- Marj. Nat. Hist. (2) xx. p. 477 (18.57) ; 

 Gray, P. Z. 8. 18-58, pp. 172, 190; id. Cat. Mnrnvt. ^ B. New 

 Gui7iea, p. 55 (1859) ; id. P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 433 ; Rosenb. Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 230 (1863) ; id. J.f. 0. 1864, p. 118 ; 

 S/iarpe, Monorjr. Alced. p. 151, pi. 55 (1869) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 697 ; Salvad. Ann. Miis. Genov. vii. p. 765 (1875), viii. p. 397 

 (1876), ix. p. 29 (1876), x. pp. 127, 304 (1877) ; Sharpe, Journ. 



