292 ALCEDINIDJE. 



Key to the Sj^ecies *. 



a. Smaller : olivaceous brown above ; no black 

 frontal band;' male with blue wing-coverts 

 'and a blue eyebrow, the female with black 

 wing-coverts and a dark blue eyebrow, the 

 feathers tipped with white cyanotis, p. 292. 



h. Larger : ochreous brown above ; a black frontal 

 band; sexes alike in having a white-tipped 

 eyebrow, but the male having blue wing- 

 coverts and the female black ones saiujhirensis, p. 293. 



1. Cittura cyanotis. 



Dacelo cyanotis, Temm. PI. Col. iv. pi. 262 (1824) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 78 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 52 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 154 (1850) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 22 (1863) ; id. 



Voff. Kederl. Ind., Alced. pp. 18, 51, pi. vi. figs. 1, 2 (1864) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 89, no. 1065 (1869) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, 



Alced. lievue, p. 14 (1874). 

 Cittura cyanotis, Reichenb. Handh., Alced. p. 38, Taf. 429. fig. 3170 



(1851); Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. p. 301, pi. 119 (1868); Walden, 



Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 44 (1872) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. 



p. 653 (1877) ; Bmoley, Orn. Misc. iii. pi. 99 (1878) ; 3Iei/er, 



op. cit. pp. 131-143 (1878) ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 63 ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 



1885, p. 548 ; Blasius, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. iii. p. 90 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown, including the 

 mantle, back, and scapulars, the outer webs of the latter creamy 

 buff, forming a pale band down the wing ; upper tail-coverts 

 chestnut, as also the tail-feathers ; wing-coverts deep ultramarine, 

 the greater series, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 washed with blue externally, the inner secondaries with ochreous 

 buff near the ends ; crown of head more reddish ochre than the 

 back ; a narrow streak running from the base of the nostrils 

 above the eye, and widening into a broad band of dark ultramarine 

 above the ear-coverts ; above this blue baud a superciliary band of 

 ochreous-tipped feathers with a slight lilac tinge ; a small black 

 spot at the base of the cheeks ; the sides of face, ear-coverts, and 

 cheeks ochreous with a lilac gloss ; chin white ; loxier throat, fore 

 neck, and breast ochreous, glossed with lilac ; abdomen isabelline, 

 more fulvescent on the sides of the body ; under tail-coverts 

 . yellowish buff; under wing-coverts and axiUaries palo ochreous, 

 with a black patch on the greater under wing-coverts ; lower 

 primary-coverts ashy brown ; quills dusky below, pale ochreous 

 along the inner web : " bill and feet dark red ; claws brownish 

 black; iris rosy red" {A. B. Meyer). Total length 9 inches, 

 cnlmen 1-4, wing 3-8, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-5. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but differing in the baud 

 along the sides of the hinder crown, and the wing-coverts, which 

 are black instead of blue ; the superciliary streak is black, tipped 



* Cf. Meyer, in Eowlej's Oin. Misc. iii. pp. 131-143 (1878). 



