304 ALCEDINID^E. 



y. Tanysiptera hydrocliaris. 



p. 347 ; Cab. ^- Hei7ie, Mus. Hein. Tli. ii. p. 162 (18G0) ; Gray, 

 P. Z. S. 1861, p. 433 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 24 ; Rosenb. Nat. 

 TijchcJu: Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 231 (1803) ; id. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 118; 

 Schl. Nederl. Tijdsckr. Dierk. iii. pp. 269, 340 (1866) ; Rosenb. 

 Reis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 38 (1867) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 90, 

 no. 1075 (1869) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 631 ; id. Monogr. Alced. 

 p. 273, pi. 106 (1870) ; Pek. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxii. p. 427 

 (1872) ; Schley. Mus. Paijs-Bas, Alced. Revue, p. 41 (1874) ; Salmd. 

 Ann. Mus. Genov. x. p." .'503 (1877); D' Albert, f Salvad. op. cit. 

 xiv. p. 50 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia etc. i. p. 450 (1880) ; 

 Meyer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 276 (1884) ; Salvad. Ayy. Orn. 

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

 Dacelo hydrocharis, Schley. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 46 (1863) ; id. 

 Voy. Nederl. Ind. pp. 36, Q'i, j)l. xv. fig. 4 (1864) ; Finsch, Neu- 

 Guinea, p. 161 (1865). 



Adult. Crown of the head light cobalt, blackish on the forehead, 

 and brighter along the sides of the head ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and 

 nape black ; scapulars, middle of the back, and wing-coverts 

 black, washed with ultramarine, brighter on the latter ; wing- 

 feathers black, white at the base, washed with ultramarine on the 

 outer web ; rump pure white ; tail black, broadly washed with dark 

 blue ; middle feathers blue, edged with white near the base and 

 terminating in an elongated white spatula ; entire under surface 

 white : bill coral-red ; feet dusky reddish olive ; eyes dark brown. 

 Total length 13-3 inches, of bill from front 1, from gape 1-4, wing 

 3-5, tail 3-3, middle tail-feathers 9, tarsus 3-6, middle toe 0-6, hind 

 toe 0-25. 



Young. Head blackish brown ; a line of feathers, extending from 

 the base of the bill backwards over the eye, pale fulvous brown ; 

 back, scapulai's, and wing-coverts dark brown, strongly tinged with 

 dark ochre, especially on the rump and wing-coverts, the latter being 

 conspicuously edged with ochre ; quills blackish brown, fulvous at 

 the base, the primaries externally edged with whitish brown, the 

 secondaries with dark ochre, this colour being spread over the whole 

 of the innermost secondary quills ; tail ochreous brown, the middle 

 feathers tinged with dull blue ; ear-coverts dark brown ; cheeks 

 mixed dark brown and ochre ; sides of the neck and entire breast 

 ochre, margined with blackish brown, the lower part of the abdomen 

 white ; throat pure white, with a line of brown feathers running 

 down each side of it : bill dark horn-brown, paler on the lower 

 mandible ; feet olive-brown. Total length 5"3 inches, of biU from 

 front 0-8, wing 3, tarsus O'oo. 

 Hah. Aru Islands. 



a, b, 0. Ad. ; d. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



Imm. .'ik. (Types of species.) 



€,/. Ad.etjuv.sk. Aru Islands (^. ii. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



