306 AI.CKDIXID.E. 



Total length 13-5 inches, of bill from front 1-4, from gape 1'7, 

 ■wing 4-5, tail 4'5, centre feathers 8, tarsus 0-5, middle toe 0-7, hind 

 toe 0-35. 



Young. Similar to adult, but has the wing-coverts somewhat 

 edged with ochre, and some of the quills dull rusty brown ; the 

 upper tail-coverts are broadly edged with blue and tinged with 

 ochre, and the entire under surface of the body is also tinged with 

 the last-named colour, the flanks being marked with brown ; the 

 tail is also entirely blue. 



Hab. Island of Koffiao, near !Mysol, in the Moluccas. 



a. $ ad. sk. Koffiao, July (Iloedt). Leyden Museum [E.]. 



12. Tanysiptera margaritae. 



Tanvsiptera nvmpha (nee Gray), Reichenb. Handh., Alced. p. 43, Taf. 



406. tigs. 3093-94(1851). 

 Tanvsiptera margaretbfe, Heine, J. f. O. 1859, p. 406 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1860, p. 347, note ; ul. Ibis, 18G0, p. 421 ; Heine, J. f. O. 1861, 



p. 215; Sc}>l. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. Hi. p. 272 (1866); Shnrpe, 



P. Z. S. 1869, p. 361 ; id. Monogr. Alced. p. 277, pi. 103 (1870) ; 



Sahad. Ami. Miis. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 765 (1876). 

 Tanysiptera isis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 347; Wall. Ibis, 1862, p. 350 ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 24 ; Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 272 



(1866). 

 Dacelo dea, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bus, Alced. p. 43 (1863) ; id. Vog. 



Nederl. Ind. Alced. pp. 33,62, pi. xiii. fig. 2 (1864) ; Finsch, Neu- 



Guiiica, p. 161 (1865). 

 Tanysiptera margaretta, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 90, no. 1070 (1869). 

 Tanysiptera dea, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. Pevue, p. 3 (1874). 

 Tanysiptera margaritfe, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. x. p. 303 (1877) ; 



id. Orn. Papuasia etc. i. p. 430 (1880). 



Adult. Crown of the head ultramarine, encircled with a line of 

 bright cobalt feathers ; forehead black ; cheeks, ear-coverts, back and 

 sides of neck, upper part of the back, and scapulars deep blue ; lower 

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

 edged with bright blue ; quills brownish black, the inner web 

 white at the base, the outer web sparingly margined with blue, 

 some of the feathers having a dusky edging ; tail-feathers white, 

 margined with blue, the two middle feathers blue to half the extent 

 of the spatula, which is elongated, the basal portion of the feathers 

 being marked or irregularly streaked with white. Total length 13 

 inches, of bill from front 1-3, from gape 1-7, wing 3-6, tail 3-8, 

 centre feathers 8, tarsus 0-5, middle toe 0*7, hind toe 0"3. 



Hah, Islands of Gilolo and Batchian, in the Moluccas. 



a. Ad. sk. Moluccas. Purchased. 



A, c. Ad. et juv. »k. Gilolo. Wallace Coll. 



d-g. Ad.sk. Gilolo (^. J?. Wallace: Sharpe Tweeddale Coll. 



Cull). 



h-n. Ad. et juv. sk. Batchian. Wallace Coll. 



o, p. Ad. et juv. sk. Batchian {Sharpe Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



q, r. Ad. sk. Batchian {A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



s. Ad. St. Batchian. Wallace Coll. 



