19. MONACHALCTON. 295 



blue on the nape ; the cheeks are blue, forming a broad moustachial 

 band. Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 2-2, wing 5-7, tail 4-4, 

 tarsus 0"75. 

 Hah. Celebes. 



a. Ad. St. Celebes. Purchased. 



b. d" ad. sk. Celebes. Tweeddale CoU. 

 e-e. Ad. sk. Menado, N. Celebes. Gould Coll. 



/. (S ad. ; g, h. Menado. Wallace Coll, 



2 ad. sk. 

 *. Ad. sk. Meuado. Hume Coll. 



h, I. S ad. sk. Menado {R. van Duivenbode : Tweeddale CoE, 



Sharpe Coll.). 



2. Monachalcyon cyanocephalus. 



Monachaleyon princeps (nee Fovsten), Reichenb. Handb., Alced. p. 38, 



Taf. 425. fig. 3157 (1851). 

 Dacelo cyanocephalus, Forsfen, MSS, 

 Dacelo princeps, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 24 (1863) ; id. 



Votj. NeJerl. Lid. Alced. pp. 20, 53, pi. vii. fig. 3 (1864) ; id. 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. Remie, p. 16 (1874). 

 Monachaleyon monachus, pt., Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. pi. 98. fio'. 3 



(1870). 

 Halcyon cyanocephalus, Briiggem. Abhundl. nat. Ver. Breinen, v. 



p. 51 (1876). 

 Monachaleyon cyanocephalus, Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 61. 



Adiilt. General colour above brown, the feathers of the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts tipped with an edging of 

 rufescent ochre ; wing-coverts brown, also edged with rufescent 

 ochre, before which is a blackish subterminal bar ; quills brown, 

 externally edged with rufous, the inner secondaries tipped like the 

 wing-coverts : tail-feathers brown with rufescent margins ; crown 

 of head dull blue, with a black band round the occiput, separating 

 the crown from the hind neck, which has a broad collar of deep 

 ochraccous buff, mottled with subterminal lines and bars of black ; 

 a broad eyebrow of deep ochraceous running from the base of the 

 biU to above the ear-coverts ; sides of face and ear-coverts deep 

 blue, the hinder part of the ear-coverts black ; across the ear- 

 coverts a broad streak of ochreous buff; under surface of body 

 pale ochreous white, the throat unspotted ; lower throat, breast, 

 and sides of body deep ochreous, crossed with ''rregular wavy bars 

 of blackish brown, less frequent on the abdomen, which is paler ; 

 under tail-coverts ochreous buff, uniform ; under wing-coverts like 

 the breast, and barred in the same manner ; quills brown below, 

 ochreous along the inner web. Total length 11 inches, culmen 

 1-65, wing 4-5, tail 3-65, tarsus 0-7. 

 Hab. Celebes. 



a. Ad. sk. Celebes. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Menado, N. Celebes. Tweeddale Coll. 



