312 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



/Species. 

 a\ Lower parts lilac and rufous. 

 b\ Smaller; wing and tail shorter. 



c\ A bright blue spot behind ear-coverts melanura (p. 312) 



c*. No bright blue spot behind ear-coverts mindanensis (p. 312) 



6^ Larger; wing and tail longer samarensis (p. 313) 



a^ Lower parts yellow, or yellow washed with rufous. 



b^. Above rufous, or black and rufous, washed with more or less lilac. 



euerythra (p. 314) 

 b'. Above silvery cobalt to deep ultramarine-blue but with ( bournsi (p. 316) 



no rufous j goodf ellowi (p. 318) 



275. CEYX MELANURA Kaup. 

 KAUP'S KINGFISHEH. 



Ceyx melanura Kaup, Fauna Eisv. (1848), 15; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. (1892), 17, 180 (part); Hand-List (1900), 2, 53; Bourns and 

 Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 46; 

 McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 53. 



Luzon {Heriot, Mollendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead) . 



"Adult. — Above lilac-rufous, washed with lilac ; edge of wing rufous ; 

 scapulars rufous like the back, with a broad band of black on each side 

 of mantle; wing-coverts black, spotted minutely with bright blue; alula, 

 primary-coverts, and quills black; tail-feathers rufous like the back, the 

 lateral ones blackish; crown lilac-rufous, with faint but distinct spots 

 of brighter lilac; lores pale orange; eyelid and a mark in front of eye 

 blackish; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks lilac-nifous, succeeded by 

 a band of white on the sides of the neck, above which is a spot of bright 

 blue; throat white; fore neck, breast, sides of body, and flanks bright 

 lilac-rufous; abdomen white; thighs and under tail-coverts rufous, as 

 well as the under wing-coverts and axillars and the inner edge of the 

 quills. Length, 187; culmen, 30; wing, 53: tail, 18; tarsus, 9. 



"Young. — Exactly similar to the adults, but with a shorter and paler 

 bill, the latter being horny whitish.'' (Sharpe.) 



276. CEYX MINDANENSIS Steere. 

 MINDANAO KINGFISHER. 



Ceyx mindanensis Steere, List Birds &. ]\lanis. Steere Exped. (1890), 10; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 181 (foot note) ; Hand-List 

 (1900), 2, 53; Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 47; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 



(1906). 53. 

 Cci/x basHaniro Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere K.\])(><1. (ISitOl. 10. 

 Cet/x plaienw Blasius. .Jour, fiir Orn. (1890), 141. 



Basilan {Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Steere, Steere Exp., 

 Platen, Bourns & Worcester, Goodf ellow) . 



