284 ALCEDIN1D.T,. 



a, b. Ad. ; c. Tlalmalu'ia. Wallace Coll, 



Juv. sk. 

 d, e. Ad. sk. IIalmaln5ra (^4. R. Wallace : Sharpe Tweeddale Coll. 



Coll.). 

 f. Ad. sk. Toruate (A. H. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



50. Halcyon hombroni. 



Actenoide variee, Honihr. Sf Jacq. Voi/. Pule Sud, pi. 23. fig. 2 



(1846). 

 Actenoides vai'iegata {nee Bomi.), Jacq. ^' Pucker. Toy. Pole Sud, 



Zool. iii. p. 101 (18-53). 

 Actenoides hombroni, i)y). Co7)sji. i. p. 157 (1850) ; Reichenh. Handb., 



Alced. p. 36,Taf. 422. fig. 3147 (1851) ; Bj). Consp. Volucr. Anis. 



p. 9 (1854) ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 155 (1875) ; Gould, B. Asia, 



i. pi. 40 (1877) ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 994; Steere, List B. Sf 



Mamm. Steere Rrped. Philipp. p. 11 (1890: Mindanao). 

 Halcyon hombroni, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 93, no. 1136 (1869) ; 



Shaipe, Monoqv. Alced. p. 221, ^\. 84 (1871) ; id. Trans. Linn. Sac. 



2ndser. Zoo/.'i. p. 318 (1876). 



Adult male. Head and nape bright blue, more brilliant on the 

 sides of the head, above the ej-e, and on the nape ; round the latter 

 a narrow line of deep black ; ear-coverts chestnut ; along the 

 lower line of the lores a streak of black, reaching below the eye, 

 and widening behind the latter, being here washed with blue ; 

 cheeks bright blue, forming a broad band ; sides of neck and hinder 

 part of the latter deep tawny, varied with narrow black edgings to 

 the feathers ; mantle blackish, mottled with spots of tawny buff, 

 these being subterminal, with a narrow fringe of black ; centre of 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts green, with a slight shade of 

 verditer, each feather having a distinct subterminal spot of ochra- 

 ccous buff; quills blackish, externally washed with greenish, the 

 primaries edged with ochraceous, the secondaries with the same 

 subterminal spot of ochre as on the wing-coverts ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts bright silvery cobalt, the sides of the 

 back and the lateral coverts blackish washed with blue ; tail- 

 featliers deep blue, with black shafts ; throat white, slightly washed 

 with tawny ; rest of the under surface deep tawny, whiter on the 

 centre of the abdomen ; the breast-feathers with narrow, nearly 

 obsolete, blackish margins ; thighs externally blackish, internally 

 deep tawny ; feathers at side of vent, adjoining the sides of the 

 lower back, deep blue, the outer web more or less ochraceous ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries deep tawny ; quiUs blackish 

 below, edged with pale tawny buff along the inner Aveb. Total 

 length 11-3 inches, culmen 2, wing 4-95, tail 4-15, tarsus 0'75. 



Hah. Island of Mindanao in the Philippine Archipelago. 



a. cJ ad. .sk. Ayala, Mindanao, Oct 22. F. S. Bourns, Esq. [P.]. 



b c. iS ; d. ^ Zamboanga, April (^. H. Tweeddale Coll. 

 imm. sk. Everett). 



