20. TANVSIPTRRA. 305 



//. Juv. sk. Am Islands. Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. Am Islands. Wallace Coll. 



i. Imin. St. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



10. Tanysipteva acis. 



Tanysiptera acis, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 23, 24 ; ScJtl. Ned. Tijdschr. 



iii. p. 273 (18G6) ; ISkarpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 631 ; Gmij, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 90 (1869) ; Sharpe, Monoc/r. Alced. p. 275 (1870) ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Genov. x. p. 303 (1877), xii. p. 319 (1878). 

 Uacelo dea, pt., Schl. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, Alced. p. 43 (1863) ; id. Vog. 



Ned. Ind. pp. 33, 62 (1864). 

 Tanysiptera dea, pt., Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. i. p. 436 (1880). 



Immature (type of species). Head dark blue, inclining to cobalt 

 on the nape ; cheeks, ear-coverts, hinder portion of the neck, upper 

 part of the back, and scapulars deep black, with a faint tinge of blue 

 here and there ; lower portion of the back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts dingy white, each feather broadly margined with black ; 

 wing-coverts deep blue, the innermost ones bright cobalt ; quills 

 black, the inner web yellowish at the base, the exterior webs slightly 

 tinged with dark blue ; tail-feathers white, broadly edged with blue, 

 the middle feathers, with the exception of a few white patches at 

 the base, blue for the whole length as far as the spatula, which is 

 also edged with blue : entire under surface pale fulvous, each feather 

 narrowly edged with black : bill red ; feet olive ; iris dark brown. 

 Total length 14 inches, of bill from front 1-2, from gape 1-7, wing 4, 

 tail 3-7, centre tail-feathers 8, tarsus 0-45, middle toe 0-8, hind toe 0-3. 



Hah. Island of Bourou, in the Moluccas. 



a. Imm. sk. Bnurou. Wallace Coll. (Type of species.) 



11. Tanysiptera ellioti. 



Tanysiptera ellioti, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 630 ; id. Monogr. Alced. 



p. 271, pi. 105 (1871) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 223, no. 1080 a 



(1871); Beccari, Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 707(1875); Salvad. 



op. cit. X. p. 302 (1877) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. i. p. 447 (1880). 

 Tanysiptera waldeni (err.), Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 12, 



note (1871). 

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

 Dacelo ellioti, Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 5 (l87o). 



Adult. Head uniform brilliant cobalt ; cheeks, car-coverts, and 

 the whole of the back rich ultramarine ; lesser and least coverts 

 brilliant cobalt, the second series briglit ultramarine, the cubital and 

 primary-coverts ultramarine, uniform with back ; quills entirely 

 black, the outer web broadly washed with deep ultramariue ; lower 

 part of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pure white ; tail- 

 feathers all pure white, the middle ones not attenuated and with no 

 perceptible spatula, these feathers when observed from a distance 

 and placed on a level with the eye having a faint blue lustre ; entire 

 under surface white, thighs ultramarine, and the flanks longitudi- 

 nally marked with this colour also : bill vermilion ; feet olive-brown. 



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