302 ALCEDINID-TJ. 



Vo(/. Nedeii. Lid. Alced. pp. ;S7, (35, pi. 14. figs. 1-3, pi. 15. fig. 3 

 (13(31) ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. IGl (I860). 

 Tanysiptera dea, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. Revue, p. 34 



(1874). 



Adult. Head brilliant cobalt ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and back of 

 the neck deep blue, more brilliant on the two former ; upper part 

 of the back and scapulars deep blue-black ; a large patch of feathers 

 in the centre of the back pure white ; wing-coverts deep black, 

 broadly edged with bright blue, the inncnnnost ones glittering 

 cobalt; quills black, the inner web white at tlie base, the outer 

 webs washed with dark blue ; lower portion of the back and upper 

 tail-cover ;;s white, the latter edged with dark blue; tail-feathers 

 white, the exterior web, as well as the tip of the interior, 

 broadly margined Avith dark blue ; the two middle feathers blue for 

 the whole length, as far as the spatula, the basal half of the inner 

 web varied with white ; entire under surface white : bill sealing- 

 wax red ; feet olive-brown. Total length 14 inches, of bill from 

 front 1-3, from gape 1'7, wing 4, tail 4-1, middle rectrices 8, 

 tarsus 0*5. 



Young. Head blue-black, with a cincture of brilliant cobalt ; 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, sides and back of the neck deep blae-black; 

 upper surface of the body brown, with a patch of fulvous spots on 

 the upper part of the back, corresponding to the white patch in the 

 adult ; wing-coverts brown, narrowly edged with fulvous ; quills 

 brown ; upper tail- coverts brown, slightly streaked with fulvous ; 

 tail blackish brown, glossed with blue, especially on the centre 

 feathers, which have also the inner web white ; lores and under 

 surface of the body deep fulvous, with irregular markings of black 

 caused by the black margins to the feathers : bill red, mixed with 

 black towards the tip ; feet olive-brown. 



Hab. Morty Island or Morotai, in the Moluccas. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Morty Island. Wallace Coll. 



(Types of species.) 



c-f. Ad. ; (J, h. Morty Island. Wallace Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



i, k, I. Ad. ; m. Morty Island (A. H. Wallace : Tweeddale Coll. 



Juv. sk. Sharpe Coll.). 



n, 0. Ad. sk. Morty Island {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



7. Tanysiptera emiliaB. 



Dacelo sabrina, pt., Sclil. Mas. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 46 (1863) ; id. 



Vog. Nede.-l. Ind. Alced. pp. 37, 65, pi. 14. figs. 4, 5 (1864) : 



Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 161 (18G5). 

 Tanysiptera doris, pt., Schl. Nedeii. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 274 



(1866). 

 Tanysiptera emiliae, Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. p. 265, pi. 102 (1871) ; 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. x. p. 302 (1877) ; id. Om. 



Rajmasia etc. i. p. 428 (1880). 

 Tanysiptera dea, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 34 (1874). 



