298 ALCEDIN1D.15. 



df^. Head and shoulder-patcli brilliant 



silvery cobalt ; a narrow blue 



margin to the tail-fepihers .... meyeri, p. 309. 



li. Upper back and mantle mottled with blue 



of the same colour as the head. 



g". Head ultramarine, as well as the sides of 



the face and ear-coverts ; wing-coverts 



also shaded with purplish blue dea, p. 310. 



h" . Head and sides of face, as well as sides 

 of neck, mantle, and all the wing-coverts 



bright silvery-greenish cobalt riedeli, p. 311. 



d. Under surface of body entirely deep blue ; tail 

 white, excepting the narrow shaft of the 

 centre feathers, which is blue Carolina, p. 312. 



1. Tanysiptera nympha. 



Tanysiptera nympha. Gray, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 2.37 (1841); 



id. Gen. B.'i. p. 78 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mxs. p. 59 (1848) ; 



B}}. Consp. i. p. 157 (i850) ; Grag, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 347 ; Wall. 



P. Z. S. 1862, p. 165, 1863, p. 24 ; Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. Bierk. 



iii. pp. 250, 269 (1866) ; Sharpe, ilonoqr. Alced. p. 269, pi. 104 



(1869) ; id. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 631 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 90, 



no. 1072 (1869) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 697 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. 



Alced. Pevue, p. 41 (1874) ; Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. 



p. 708 (1875) ; Salvad. op. at. x. pp. 127, 303 (1877) ; Gould, B. 



Neio Guinea, iv. pi. 48 (1878) ; Salvad. Orn. Papmsia, i. p. 452 



(1880); Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. iii. p. 33 (1886) ; Salvad. Agg. 



Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 55 (1889). 

 Alcedo (Tanysiptera) nympha. Martens, J.f. 0. 1866, p. 18. 



Adult. Head rich ultramarine, inclining to cobalt on the nape ; 

 ear-coverts and upper part of the back and scapulars jet-black ; 

 lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts rich vermilion ; 

 wing-coverts black, edged with liltramarine, the innermost ones 

 rich cobalt ; quills black, the inner web light rufous _ from the 

 base, the exterior very narrowly washed with blue ; tail-feathers 

 deep blue, the interior ones tipped with white, the two middle tail- 

 feathers rich blue, the spatula long and white, with a faint blush of 

 rose ; entire under surface rich vermilion, a little paler on the throat 

 and abdomen : bill and feet sealing-wax red ; eyes black. Total 

 length 11 inches, of bill from front 1-2, from gape VI, wing 3-6, 

 tail 2-8, middle rectrices 0-6, tarsus 0*3. 



Hab. N.W. New Guinea. 



a. Ad. [imperfect] sk. New Guinea. Old Coll. (Ty^n of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Tweeddale Coll. 



c. (S ad. sk. New Guinea. Wallace Coll. 



2. Tanysiptera danae. 



Tanysiptera nympha (nee Gray), Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Sac. N. S. 



Wales, iv. p. 467 (1879 : Goldie llivev). 

 Tanysiptera danae, Sharpe, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) vi. p. 231 



