308 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Genus ALCYON^E Swamson, 1837. 



The Philippine species here placed in Alcyone are scarcely separable 

 genericall}' from those of the next following genus. They feed along 

 small forest streams wherein they differ from the members of the genus 

 Ceyx which are always found away from water in forest or in thickets. 



Species. 



a\ Back and upper tail-coverts cobalt-blue; head spotted with cobalt-blue; chin 

 and throat orange-buff. 



6\ Lower mandible dark red; spots on crown smaller cyanopectus (p. 308) 



b'. Lower mandible black; spots on crown larger nigrirostris (p. 311) 



a\ Back and upper tail-coverts black, more or less spotted with white ; chin and 

 throat wliite. 



b'. Breast and sides dark greenish blue arg^entata (p. 309) 



¥. Breast and sides purplish blue flumenicola (p. 310) 



271. ALCYONE CYANOPECTUS ( Laf resnaye ) . 

 BLUE-BREASTED KINGFISHEE. 



Ceyx cyanopectus Lafresxaye, Rev. Zool. (1840), 33; McGregor, Bur. 

 Govt. Labs. (1905), 25, 13, pi. 10. 



Ceyx cyanipectus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 185; Hand- 

 List (1900), 2, 53; Bourns and Worcester, Ibis (1895), 404; Min- 

 nesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 48. 



Ceyx steerii Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 187. 



Alcyone cyanipectus Grant, Ibis (1805), 112, 464; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 

 385. 



Alcyone cyanopectus McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 52. 



Sal-pac', Ticao and Masbate. 



Luzon (Cuming, Heriot, Mollcndorff, Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead) ; Marin- 

 duque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindoro (Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, 

 McGregor); Ticao (McGregor) . 



Male. — Lores orange-chestnut; sides of face^ crown, and occiput deep 

 blue, the feathers tipped with silvery cobalt; back, rump, and tail-coverts 

 silvery cobalt; scapulars black, widely edged with dark. blue; wings black, 

 secondaries edged with dark blue; secondary-coverts dark blue, each 

 feather with a spot of silver}^ cobalt; a large spot of orange-chestnut on 

 side of neck; throat orange-chestnut, much paler on chin; middle of 

 abdomen and a large spot on center of breast orange-chestnut; rest of 

 under parts deep ultramarine-blue and foniiing two l)ands across the 

 breast; axillars and wing-lining orange-clu^stnut ; tail dark blue. A male 

 from Mindoro measures : Length, 145 ; wing, (iO ; tail, 23 ; exposed 

 culmen, 3.5. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but all the lower parts deep orange- 

 chestnut except the pale throat and a single dark blue l)and across the 

 breast. A female from Mindoro measures: Length, 152; wing, 61; tail, 

 23 ; exposed culmen, 35. 



"We found A. cyanopectus abundantly in Masbate. In Sibuyan it wa.s 



