Birds from British East Africa and Uganda. 269 



Halcyon senegalensis cinereicapillus Mearns, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. vol. xlviii. 1915, p. 391 : Kisingo, Uganda. Wing 

 given as 106 mm. All of these would appear to be 

 synonyms of either one race or the other. 



It is worthy of note that Vieillot, in his description of 

 Alcedo cyanoleuca, gives the bill as " rouge et termini de 

 noir," which led me to believe that possibly after all his 

 name had no reference to the bird with the wholly black 

 under-mandible. But on referring back to Temminck's 

 Cat. Syst. du Cab. Orn. 1807, pp. 70 & 215, it will be found 

 on p. 215 that the bill is given as ''mandibule superieure 

 rouge vif, pointe noire ainsi que toute la mandibule 

 inferieure." 



In Jardine's Contributions to Ornithology for 1849 is 

 a paper by Dr. Hartlaub entitled " A systematic index to a 

 series of descriptions of Birds published by C. J. Temminck 

 in his Cat. Syst. Cab. Orn." In this Dr. Hartlaub states 

 that many of Vieillot's descriptions were either copied from 

 Temminck's pamphlet, or founded on an examination of the 

 same specimens ; and that most of the South African bird*, 

 in the collection, had been brought home by Levaillant. 

 This would account for H. cyanoleuca not being mentioned 

 by either Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool, 1853, or Hartlaub, 

 Journ. fiir Orn. 1855, as being among Vieillot's types. 



139. Halcyon chelicuti. Striped Kingfisher. 

 Alaudo chelicuti Stanley, Salt's Abyss. 1814, p. Ivi: 

 Chelicut, Abyssinia. 



a. 2 • Loita, 6300 ft. Oct. 4. 



b. ^. Amala River, 5300 ft. Oct. 23. 



c. ? . Akinyo River, Bakoro, 3600 ft. Feb. 2. 



Total length in flesh : c? 7 inches ; ^ 7^ k 7 inches. 

 Wing: (J 81 mm.; ? 84 & 83 mm. 



Both the October birds are in good dress and one is still 

 moulting ; the February one is somewhat worn, and has the 

 tail washed with blackish, and very little blue on the wings ; 

 this being probably due to fading. 



I can see no racial difi'erences between eastern and western 

 or northern and southern specimens. 



