282 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Kinc/Jishcrs of South Africa. 



which is a young bird in the British Museum ; and this iden- 

 tification is very satisfactory, as no one had hitherto been able 

 to identify this species. Dr. Finsch, to whom I had the 

 pleasure of introducing the present bird, which he had never 

 before seen, very kindly compared a specimen I gave him from 

 Natal with Prof. Schlegel's type of A.picturata, and has written 

 to inform me that it is identical with /. natalensis. 



The species has not been recognized by any previous writer. 

 Sir Andrew Smith does not seem to have noticed any difi'erence 

 between it and any other species of Ispidwia, nor does he notice 

 the blue spot on the side of the neck, which is the chief distin- 

 guishing characteristic of the bird. Mr. Layard has apparently 

 never seen the species at all, and the descriptions of neither 

 Prof. Schlegel nor Dr. Kaup are particularly accurate. 



109. Ceryle maxima (Pall. Spic. Zool, vi. p. 14). 



As will be seen by a reference to the synonymy of this bird 

 given in my work, the name guttata of Boddacrt (1783) must 

 give way to the older one of Pallas (1769)*. 



110. Ceryle rudis (Linn. S. N. i. p. 181). 



I do not believe that any good specific characters can be 

 found to separate the different races of this bird as distinct 

 species. At present I can only discover a slight difference in 

 size in specimens from various localities. 



The following is a list of the Kingfishers of the Ethiopian 

 Region, the full synonymy of which will be given in my 

 * Monograph of the Alcedinida.' 



1. Halcyou cyanoleuca (Vieill.). Ah: occ. et merid. 



2. senegalensis (Linn.). Afr. occ. et Abyss. 



3. malimbica {Shatv). Afi*. occ. et merid. 



4. dryas, Hartl. Afr. occ. 



5. senegaloides, Smith. Natal. 



6. semicserulea (Forsk.). Reg. tola ^thiop. 



7. erythrogastra (remrn.). Ins. " St. Jago " dicta. 



. 8. albiventris (Scop.). Afr. merid. 



9. orientalis, Peters. Afr. orient. 



* Vide supra, p. 72. 



