20. TAXYSIPIEEA. 311 



marked with rufous ou the latter ; wing-coverts black, more broadly 

 edged with rufous and exhibiting a tinge of blue here and there ; 

 quills dark brown, slightly washed with blue near the base of the 

 outer web, the secondaries slightly margined with rufous-brown ; 

 lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts fulvous-white, 

 broadly margined with blackish ; tail-feathers fulvous white at the 

 base, broadly margined with blackish ; middle tail-feathers bluish, 

 broadened slightly towards the apex, white at the base of both 

 webs, and longitudinally marked with fulvous-white near the tip ; 

 entire under surface fulvous^becoming white in one or two places, 

 all the feathers margined with blackish, developing into two 

 large black patches on either side of the upper part of the breast : 

 bill dull sealing-wax red ; feet olive-brown. 



Hab. Islands of Amboina and Ceram, Monawolka, Boano, and 

 Manipa. 



a. Ad. sk. Moluccas. Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. Moluccas. Tweeddale Coll. 



c, d. Ad. et juv. Moluccas {Bharpe Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. 



e. Ad. St. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



/, g. Ad. ; h. Ceram. Wallace Coll. 



Juv. sk. (Types of species.) 



i-l. Ad. sk. Ceram [A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



wi. Ad. St-. Amboina. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



H, 0. Ad. et juv. Amboina. Wallace Coll. 



sk. 



;). S ad. sk. Amboina, May 21 {H. O. Furbes). Tweeddale Coll. 



19. Tanysiptera riedeli. 



Tanysiptera riedeli, Verr. Nouv. Arch. Mus. ii. Bull. p. 21, pi. 8. 

 fig. 1 (1866) ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 00, no. lOSO (186!)) ; Sharpe, 

 P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 631 ; id. Monoqr. Alced. p. 28.^5, pi. Ill (1871) ; 

 Bledel, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 1 ; Walden, Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 45 

 (1872) ; Meyer. Sitz. k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Ixix. p. 74 

 (1874); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bus, Alced. Mevue, p. 40 (1874); 

 Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. pp. 47, 115, pi. 14. fig. 2 (1875); 

 Beccari, An?i. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 708 (1875) ; Roudey, 

 Orn. Misc. i. p. 176 (1876) ;" Salmd. Ann. Mus. Genov. x. p. 303 

 (1877) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. i. p. 426 (1880). 



Tanysiptera schlegelii, Rosenb. MSS. ; cf. Schl. Xederl. Tijdschr. 

 Dierk. iv. p. 12 (1871). 



Dacelo riedeli, Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 8 (1875), 



Adult. Crown of head and hind neck glistening silvery cobalt, 

 each feather with a mesial streak of brighter silver}' blue, the 

 colour deepening slightly on the mantle and upper back ; scapulars 

 deep ultramarine with black bases ; wing-coverts silvery cobalt like 

 the head, the exterior median and greater coverts black, with ultra- 

 marine or silvery-blue ends ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills black, externally ultramarine ; lower back, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts and tail white, the centre tail-feathers blue along the 

 narrow portion, ending in a white racket ; cheeks, sides of face. 



