.332 Mr. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay on Birds 



A. maniUensis (Meyen) entered — there being in the Tweed-" 

 dale collection a female of the former from Zamboanga and 

 two presnmably young birds of this species from the same 

 place, and the specimen of the latter above referred to from 

 Manilla. 



The species to be noticed in the second collection are : — 



1. Falcg melanogenys, Gould. 



Mr. Gurney thus identifies a female specimen sent by Mr. 

 Maitland-Heriot, and informs me that the specimen in the 

 Norwich Museum, said to come from the Philippine Islands, 

 which is alluded to by the late Lord Tweeddale, T. Z. S. ix. 

 p. 139 (p. 30G), is exactly similar. 



The occurrence of this Falcon in the Philippines is thus 

 established. 



2. Ceyx melanura. 



Alcedo melanura, Kaup, Fam. der Eisv, p. 15. 

 Ceyx melanura (Kaup), Sharpe, Mon. Alced.pl. 39; Wald. 

 T. Z. S. ix. p. 153 (p. 320). 

 One specimen. 



3. Ceyx cyanopectus. (Plate IX.) 



Ceyx cyanopectus, La Fresnaye, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 33 



Ceyx philippinensis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 404 ( <^ ?). 



Alcyone cyanopectus (La Fr.), Sharpe, Mon. Alced. pi. 17. 



Ceyx philippinensis, Gld., Sharpe, Mon. Alced. pi. 37; 

 Wald. T. Z. S. ix. p. 153 (pp. 319-320). 



On seeing the four specimens sent, two specimens being in 

 the plumage of A. cyanopectus and two in that of C. philip- 

 pinensis, it at once occurred to me that the two plumages 

 were those of the two sexes of the same species. I forwarded 

 them to Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, who replied : — ^^ The King- 

 fishers are very interesting, and are Alcyone cyanopectus and 

 Ceyx philippinensis of my monograph. When I wrote I had 

 seen only one specimen of Ceyx philippinensis, and was in- 

 clined to consider the two sj)ecies distinct; but I greatly 

 doubt it now, and suspect that the two are sexes of one and 

 the same species." 



