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portions of the plumage darker, being deep maroon on the breast. 



Total length 1 i inches, culmen 2-.3, wing 5*15, tail 3"3, tarsus 

 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 10-5 inches, 

 culmen 2-iS, wing 4-8, tail 3-1, tarsus 0*o5. 



Hah. Andamans and Nicobars. 



a. $ ad. sk. S. Andamans, May 4 ( W. Davison). Hume Coll. 



b-h. Ad. sk. Port Blair, Mar. (W. B.). Hume Coll. 



(Types of species.) 



i-k. Ad. sk. Aberdeen, Nov., Dec. [De Moep- Himie Coll. 



stoif). 



I, m, n. c?ad. ; Port Mouat, April ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 



0. 5 ad. sk. 



2). 6 ad. sk. Haddo, Dec. 28 ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 



q. <S ad. sk. Macpherson Strait, March 7 (IF. D.) Hume Coll. 



r, s. S ad. ; f. Hopetown, Dec. 13 ( TF. D.). Hume Coll. 



5 ad. sk. 



u. Ad. sk. Mount Harriet, March 28 ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 



V. Imm. sk. S. Andamans, June (H. C. Beamn). Tweeddale Coll. 



w, X. Ad. sk. S. Andamans, Dec, Jau. (R. G. W. R.). Tweeddale Coll. 



y. Ad. sk. Nicobars [R. J. Wimberley). Tweeddale Coll. 



4. Halcyon gularis. 



Le Martin-pescheur bleu de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 496, 

 pi. xxxviii. fig. 2 (1760). 



Grand Martin-Pecheur de Madagascar, Dauhent. PL Enl. viii. 

 pi. 232. 



Aleedo smyrnen.«is, var. ^, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 456 (1788). 



Alcedo gularis, Kuhl, Buffon ^- Daubent. Fig. Av. Col. Nom. Syst. 

 p. 4 (1820). 



Alcedo rufirostris, Kittl. Kupf. Vog. p. 10, Taf. 14. fig. 2 (1832) ; 

 Meyen, Beitr. p. 94 (1834). 



Alcedo melanoptera (wc Horsf.), Tevim. Tahl. Meth. p. 75 (1836). 



Halcyon ruficollis, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 335 (1837). 



Halcyon smvrnensis, var. albogularis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xii. 

 p. 99 (1843), xiii. p. 394 (1884). 



Halcvou gularis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 79 (1846) ; Kaup, Fam. Eisv. 

 p. '8 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 155 (1850) ; Gould, B. Asia, i. 

 pi. 44 (1861) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 91, no. 1095 (1869) ; Sharjye, 

 Monoyr. Alced. p." 165, pi. 60 (1870) ; Wald. S( Layard, Ibis, 

 1872, pp. 06, 97 (Negros) ; Sharpe, Trayis. Linn. Soc. (2) i. p. 317 

 (1876) ; Steere, List Birds 8f Mamm. Steere E.iped. Rhilipp. p. 11 

 (1890: Guimaras, Samar, Masbate, Mariuduque, Mindoro). 



Entomothera gularis, Reichenb. Handb., Alced. i. p. 13, Taf. 40. 

 fig. 3082 (1851). 



Entomobia gularis, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. ii. p. 155 (1860) ; Wald. 

 Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 154 (1875) ; Tiveedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 538 (Min- 

 danao), p. 541 (Panay), p. 690 (Luzon), p. 758 (Cebu), p. 823 (N. 

 Mindanao) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 282 (Negros), p. 34 (8. Leyte), 

 p. 379 (Panaon), p. 943 (Zamboanga). 



Alcedo fusca {nee Bodd.), Martens, J.f. O. 1866, p. 16; id. Preuss. 

 Erped. Ost-A.ven. p. 189 (1867). 



Dacelo gularis, .SV7(/. Mus. Pays-Bas, Revue Alced. p. 19 (1874). 



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