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ALCEDINID^. 



3, Sanromarptis tyro. 



Dacelo sp., Wall. Ann. ^- Mar/. Nat. lUst. (2) xx. p. 456 (1857). 

 Bacelo tyro, Gray, P. Z. 8. 1858, pp. 171, 189, pi. 133; id. Cat. 



Mamm. Sf B. Neiv Guinea, pp. 19, 64 (1859) ; Gould, B. Asia, i. 



pi. 51 (1860) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 433 ; Eose7ib. Nat. Tijdschr. 



Nederl. hid. xxv. p. 231 (1863); id. J.f. O. 1864, p 118; Schl. 



Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 339 (1866); Posenb. Reis naar 



Zuidoosterkl. p. 37 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-IB. i. p. 89, n. 1064 (1869) ; 



8harpe, Monoyr. Alced. p. 297, pi. 117 (1869) ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Ges. 



Wien,Tp. 426 (1872): Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. Pemte, p. 13 



(1874). 

 Sauromarptis tyro, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 164, note 



(1860) ; Salcad. Arm. 3Ius. Genov. x. p. 303 (1877) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 94 ; id. Orn. Pajmasia etc. i. p. 495 (1880), iii. App. 



p. 525 (1882) ; id. Pep. Toy. ' Challenyer; ii. Birds,-p. 77 (1881) ; 



id. Ayy. Orn. Papuasiu, i. p. 60 (1889). 

 Dacelo gaudichaudi, pt., Srhl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 20 (1863); 



id. Voy. Nederl. Ind. pp. 13, 49, pi. iv. fig. 4 (1864) ; Finsck, Neu- 



Guinea, p. 160 (1865). 

 Sauromarptis cyanophrys, Salvad. Atti P. Accad. Sci. Torino, xvi. 



p. 621 (1881) ; id. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 420 (1882) ; id. Orn. 



Papuasia, iii. App. p. 525 (1882) ; Meyer, Zeitschr. c/es. Orn. i. 



p. 277 (1884) ; Salvad. Ayy. Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 60 (1889). 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks 

 black, mottled with concealed bars and terminal spots of ochraceous 

 bviff; lores deep ochre; the sides of the crown washed with blue; 

 sides of neck, hind neck, and mantle more distinctly mottled than 

 the crown, tlie ochreous spots on the hind neck larger and more 

 rounded ; the mantle ochreous buff, barred and fringed with black, 

 the lower feathers with blue ; scapulars black, with indistinct blue 

 margins ; back bright cobalt, mottled with silvery white just below 

 the mantle ; wing- coverts blue, with brighter blue edgings, the 

 inner ones entirely bright cobalt ; the greater coverts and the quills 

 black, externally dull indigo-blue; lateral upper tail-coverts dark 

 blue, with margins of brighter blue ; tail-feathers blue, blackish on 

 the iuncr margins and along the shafts ; under surface of body rich 

 ochreous buff, the throat paler, but the sides of the body, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts deeper in colour and more tawuj' ; under 

 Aving-coverts and axillaries, as well as the quill-liniug, deep ochreous 

 buff. Total length 13 inches, culmen 2-1, wing 5-7, tail 4-5, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little duller in colour, 

 the blue portions of the plumage being somewhat greener in tint 

 than in the male. Total length 13 inches, culmen 2, wing 5-7, tail 

 4-5, tarsus 0-8. 



Youn<i. Not so numerously spotted as the adults, the black pre- 

 dominating on the head, Avhile the lower mantle-feathers are broadly 

 edged with black ; the under surface is vinous buff, inclining to 

 tawny on the flanks and imder t«il-covcrts ; the feathers of the 

 throat and breast narrowly fringed with blackish. 



S. cyanophrys of Count Salvadori is doubtless only a very old 



