246 ALCEDINIDiE. 



/. Ad. sk. Abrobonko, Jan. 30 {G. E. S.). Shelley Coll. 



q. Ad. sk. Accra (Hai/nes). Sharpe Coll. 



■/(. Ad. sk. River Volla {If. T. UssJw). Shelley Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Cameroons Mountains, Jan. 26 Sharpe Coll. 



(Crossley). 



A;. Ad. sk. G ahoon (Verreaux). Sharpe Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Benguela. Monteiro Coll. 



m, n. (S ad. ; o. Ondong-a, Ovampo-Laud, Dec, Sharpe Coll. 

 Imm. sk. March, April (C. J. Anders- 

 son). 



jy-s. <S 2 ad. sk. Limpopo River, Transvaal, Shelley Coll. 

 Nov. (7'. E. Btickley). 



t, u, V. S ad. sk. Nata River, Matabole-Land, W. E. & C. G. Gates, 

 Kec, May (F. Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



w. Ad. sk. Achor, Bogos-Land {Esler). Sharpe Coll. 



.r. (S ad. sk. Anseba Valley, July 28. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



14. Halcyon torquatus. (Plate VI. fig. 1.) 



Halcyon torquata, Stvains. B. W. Afv. ii. p. 99 (1837). 



Halcyon cinereifrons (wee F.), Gray, List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 53 



(184:8) ; Hartl. Orji. W.-Afr. p. 32 (1857, pt.); id. J.f. O. 1861, 



p. 104 (pt. : Bissao). 

 Halcyon malimbica (nee Shatv), Cass. Cat. Hale. Phihd. Mus. p. 8 



(1852, pt, : Senegal). 

 Dacelo cinereifrons, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Revice, Alced. p. 20 (1874 : 



Bissao). 



Adult. Entire back greenish blue from the hind neck to the 

 upper tail-coverts ; scapulars and wing-coverts black ; lesser coverts 

 on the point of the wing, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and outer 

 aspect of quills greenish blue, the latter blackish brown at the ends 

 and on the inner web, with a large oblique quill-lining of white on 

 the latter ; tail-feathers greenish blue, with black shafts, and an 

 edging of black along the inner web : entire head light brown, with 

 a faint greenish gloss under certain lights, the forehead decidedly 

 paler and more ashy brown, extending on to the fore part of the 

 crown also ; lores, eyelid, and a patch behind the eye black ; sides 

 of face and ear-coverts greenish blue, this colour spreading over the 

 hinder cheeks, the throat, and chest ; breast and abdomen white, as 

 well as the thighs and under tail-coverts ; the sides of the body 

 speckled with a bluish-grey shade ; under , wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white, with a black patch on the lower primary-coverts. 

 Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 2-3, wing 4-8, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-65. 



Younger birds have an ochreous-buff tinge on the breast and 

 sides of body, and the colours are less bright. The whole bill, too, 

 is red, with black near the base of the upper mandible, and extend- 

 ing about halfway up the lower one. 



Hub. Senegambia. 



a. Ad. sk. Senegal {D'Einville). Riocour Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. [Senegambia.] Sharpe Coll. 



c. Imm. sk. [Senegambia.] Sharpe Coll. 



