162 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



Halcyon cy anoleuca. 



Alcedo cyanoleuca, Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. p. 401, 

 pi. 19. 



Halcyon cyanoleuca^ Hartl, Orn. W. Afr. p. 31; — 

 Sharpe, Mon. Alced. pi. 69. 



Dacelo senegalensis (part.), Schl. Mus. P.-B., Revue Al- 

 ced. p. 21. 



Halcyon senegalensis (part.), Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 557. 



Hab. Senegambia , Liberia , Angola , Southern Africa. 



One specimen (9) collected at Bavia (St. Paul). 



Notwithstanding Prof. Schlegel's and Capt. Shelley's uni- 

 ting this species with H, senegalensis, I have the impres- 

 sion of its being a well-defined species. My Liberian spe- 

 cimen as well as two from the Senegal , being N". 3 and 

 4 of Prof. Schlegel's Catalogue , fully agree with description 

 and plate, given by Mr. Sharpe in his excellent Mono- 

 graph, while there is no intermediate form neither in 

 the collection of the Museum nor amongst my Liberian 

 birds. My specimen was shot in brushwood near the St. 

 Pauls River. 



Iris black, upper mandible of bill scarlet, lower man- 

 dible black , feet brown , soles red. 



Halcyon malimhica. 



Alcedo malimhica, Shaw, Gen. Zool. VIII. p. 66. 



Halcyon cinereifrons and H. dryas , Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. 

 p. 32. 



Halcyon dryas and H. malimhica , Sharpe , Mon. Alced. 

 p. 193, pi. 71 and p. 196, pi. 72. 



Dacelo cinereifrons , D. malimhica and D. dryas , Schl. 

 Mus. P.-B., Revue Alced. p. 20. 



Hab. West Africa, from the Senegal to Angola; S. E. 

 Africa. 



A series of adult males and females, a semi-adult female 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuiüuuiii, Vol. VII. 



