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AI.CEDINIDJE. 



Adult )}iale. Similar to //. smi/rnnisis, but easily distinguished by 

 the white being restricted to the upper throat, by the richer blue and 

 maroon colours of the plumnge, and by the whole of the wing- 

 coverts being black : " bill and legs coral-red : iris dark brown " 

 {A. H. Everett). Total length 10 inches, culmen 2'5, wing 4*85, 

 tail 3'1, tarsus 0"55. 



Adult femcde. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 

 10 inches, culmen 2-35, wing 4-9, tail 3-2, tarsus 0"55. 



Hah. Philippine Islands. 



a, b. Ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. 



g. c? ad. sk. 

 h, /.J $ ad. 



sk. 

 k. $ ad. sk. 

 I, m. c? <id. ; n. 



5 ad. sk. 

 0. Ad. sk. 

 p. 5 ad. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. 



r,s. c? ? ad. 



sk. 

 t, u. (S 2 ad. 



sk. 

 V. Ad. sk. 

 w. 2 ad. sk. 

 a; y. d 2 ad. 



sk. 



Pliilippiue Islands [SharjK Coll.). 



Manila, Luzon. 



ftlanila {Maitland-Heriot). 



Sau Mateo, Luzon, Jan. {A. 



Everett). 

 Monte Alban, Feb. {A. Everett). 

 Cebu, April (A. Everett). 



Cehu, April {Dr. A. B. Metjer). 

 Negros, Jan., March {L. C. 



Layitrd). 

 San Bernardino, Negros, Jan. 

 Sibulau, Negros, March 9. 



Valencia, Negros, Aug. {A. 



Everett) . 

 Ilo-Uo, Panay. 



Zamboanga, Mindanao. 



Zaniboanga, Mindanao [A. Everett). 

 Panaon, Oct. {A. Everett). 

 Surigao, May (A. Everett). 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Prof. Steere [C.]. 

 E. L. Moseley, Esq. 



[C.l. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Voy. FLI^r.S. ' Chal- 

 lenger.' 



Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 

 lenger.' 



Tweeddale Coll. ■ 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



5. Halcyon cyaniventris. 



Alcedo cyanoveutris, Jleill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xix. p. 412 



(1818). 

 Alcedo melanoptera, Horsf, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 174 (1821). 

 Alcedo omnicoli)r, Temm. PL Col. iv. pi. 135(1823, ev Reimv. MSS.). 

 Halcyon nielanopterus, Steph. in Skate's Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 100 (1826); 



Grarj, Gen. B. i. p. 79 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 54 



(1848) ; Horsf. S^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.L Co. i. p. 127 (1854). 

 Dacelo omnieolor. Less. Traite, p. 247 (1831). 

 Halcyon omnieolor, Sioains, Classif. B. ii. p. 335 (1837) ; Bp. Cons]). 



i. p. 155 (1850) ; Gould, B. Asia, i. pi. 47 (1860). 

 IL^leyon multicolor, Kaiip, Fam. Eisv. p. 8 (1848). 

 Entomotliera melanoptera, Reiehenb. Handb., Alced. p. 14, Taf. 404. 



tig. 3087 (1851). 

 Halcyon cyaniventris, Cass. Cat. Hale. Pldlad. Mus. p. 6 (1852) ; 



Gray, Hund-l. B. i. p. 91, no. 1098 (1869) ; 8harpe, Monogr. Alced. 



p. 107, pi. 01 (1870) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1881, p. 143 (Java). 

 Eutomobia cvaniventris, Cab. i^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 154 



(1860). 



