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from Asalu the white pearly band separates the whole of the 

 golden-yellow throat from the green breast. 



The markings and shades of colour vary considerably in 

 this handsome Broad-bill. In some the broad yellow band 

 on the sides of the neck is interrupted on the nape by a patch 

 of blue ; in others this patch of blue has a yellow patch 

 above it. When the patch behind the eye is not pure yellow, 

 but greenish or bluish yellow, the yellow plumes of the chin, 

 and of the lores, and those which form the narrow frontal 

 band, are generally more or less tinged with green. In the 

 young bird the whole throat and the space before the eye is 

 light green. The crown is dark green, uniform with the 

 back, while those markings which eventually become golden, 

 are sketched-in in pale yellow. No blue, excepting on the 

 quills, and a tinge on the middle rectrices, is developed ; nor 

 is there a trace of silvery white. On the whole we may safely 

 relegate P. assimilis to the limbo of unnecessary synonyms. 



Calgrnis affinis. Another title, Calornis irwini, Hume 

 (Str. Feath. i. p. 481), falls within the same category of use- 

 less synonyms. Mr. Hume asks (/. c.),Was C. affinis described 

 from Malacca? It was described (J. A. S. B. xv. p. 37) as a 

 species distinct from the Malaccan C. cantor =C. insidiator, 

 and was stated to inhabit Tipperah, Arakan, Tenassarim (?), 

 and the Nicobars. Islv. Bly th, who did not admit the distinct- 

 ness of the Nicobar Calornis, recently, with the Andaman en- 

 titled C. tytleri, Hume [1. c), added that locality to those of 

 Tipperah and Arakan. Tenasserim he noted with doubt, 

 because Mr. Barbe had informed him that the Tenasserim 

 species was the same as the Malaccan [torn. cit. p. 375, note). 

 Notwithstanding, the Tip})erah bird has again received a title 

 from Mr. Hume. 



Alcedo beavani. 



Alcedo rufigastra, Walden, Ann. N. H. (4) xii. p. 487. 



Alcedo heavani, Walden, op. cit. (4) xiv. p. 158. 



A single example of this Kingfisher was obtained by Lieu- 

 tenant W. Ramsay at Tonghoo. Probably it is the species 

 catalogued by Mr. Bly th in his list under the title of A. asia- 



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