296 ALCEDINIDiE. 



3. Monaclialcyoii fulgidus. 



Halcyon fulfridus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 6.") ; id. B. Asia, i. pi. 40 



(18G0) : Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 94, 



no. 1139 (1869). 

 Cftridouax fulgidus, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 162 (1860) ; 



Sharpe, Mo^ioqr. Alced. p. 257, pi. 99 (1868). 

 Dacelo fulgidus," *S'c/(/. Mvs. Pays-Bas. Alced. p. 24 (1863) ; id. Vog. 



Nederl. Ind. Alced. pp. 21, 54, pi. ix. iig. 1 (1884) ; id. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Alced. Revue, p. 16 (1874). 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above deep ultra- 

 marine or purplish blue, including the wing-covcrts and outer 

 aspect of quills, the latter being black on the inner web and at the 

 ends ; centre of lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts silvery 

 white, inclining to blue on the sides ; the sides of the lower back 

 and rump entirely black; lateral upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers 

 deep ultramarine like the back ; crown of head, sides of face, cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, and sides of neck black, slightly washed with blue on 

 the nape ; entire under surface of body pure white ; sides of upper 

 breast black ; sides of body mottled with black bases to the feathers; 

 thighs black; long upper tail-coverts white ; the vent- feathers black 

 at the base and washed with blue ; under wiug-coverts black, the 

 greater series white, black towards the ends. Total length 12 inches, 

 culmen 2*1, wing 5-25, tail 4-1, tarsi;s 0"75. 



Younr/. Duller and blacker than the adult, without the purplish- 

 blue lustre of the old birds ; the abdomen, under tail- and wing- 

 coverts inclining to fulvous. 



Hab. Islands of Lombock and Flores. 



a, b. Ad. st. Lombock, Wallace Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Lombock {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



d. Ad. sk. Lombock. Wallace Col). 



e. Juv. sk. Flores. Wallace Coll. 



20. TANYSIPTERA. 



Type. 

 Tanysiptera, Vigors, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 433 (1825). T. dea. 

 Uralcyon, Heine, J.f. O. 1859, p. 406 T. sylvia. 



Range. Moluccas, Papuan Islands, and the Cape York 

 Peninsula of Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Under surface vermilion; outer tail-feathers 

 merely tipped with white ; no white dorsal 

 patch. 

 a'. Head blue; sides of face and mantle black . . ny7npha, Tp. 298, 

 l) . Head brown ; sides of face and mantle 



reddish brown danae, p. 298. 



