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A female from Pontianak, N° 1517 (Moret) aud another 

 from a plantation at Poetoes Sibau (N° 2). — Iris red, 

 bill black, feet gray. The first specimen differs from the 

 typical habitus in having the feathers on head, hind neck, 

 mantle, lesser wing-coverts and breast broadly bordered 

 with blue, and in having the throat but faintly shaded 

 with chestnut. The plumage in this specimen is rather 

 worn off and the centre tail-feathers are newly moulted. 



H a b. Malay Peninsula, the Philippines aud the whole 

 Malay Archipelago. 



64. Nyctiornis amicta. 



Merops amictus Temm. PI. Col. IV, pi. 310 (1824). 

 Nyctiornis amicta Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 91; Everett, L. B. Born, 

 p. 164; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 18. 



Numerous specimens from Mounts Kenepai and Liang 

 Koeboeng, and seven specimens from Long Bloe (upper 

 Mahakkam). — Iris orange-red, bill black, base of lower 

 mandible white, feet green. — Contents of stomach: wild bees. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Alcedinifiae. 



65. Alcedo hengalensis. 



Alcedo hengalensis Gm. S. N. I, p. 450 (1788); Salvad. Ucc. Born. 



p. 92; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 158; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 18. 

 Alcedo ispida (part.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. XVII, p. 141. 



A small series from Pontianak, Sanggau and Smitau. — 

 Iris black, bill in the male entirely black, in the female 

 black, lower mandible red; feet red. 



Hab. South-eastern Asia, Japan, Malay Archipelago. 



66. Alcedo meninting. 



Alcedo meninting Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 172(1822); Salvad. 

 Ucc. Born. p. 9.3; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 18. 



where this specific name is based upon Brisson's Apiaster pkilippinus major 

 (see also Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. VllI, p. 42). 



>fote:s from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXI. 



