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189. Alcedo meninting* meninting Ilorsf. 



Alcedo 7nemntiiu/, Hoisfield, Ti-aiis. Linn. Soo. xii, 1821, p. 172 

 (Java) ; B., p. 45 (Jnnk Seylon) ; E., p. Ill (Patani) ; F., p. 32 

 (Terutmi) ; L., p. 95 (Junk Seylon). 



Alcedo meninting menintiny, Haker, Bull. Bi-it Orn. Club, xxxix, 

 1918, p. 37 (Malay Peninsula, north to Bankasoon). 



We liave not sufficient material available to discuss in detail 

 Mr. Stuart Baker's recent article on this Kinfjfisher (foni. cif. supra, 

 pp. 37-40). The specimens referred to above are identical with birds 

 from the southern Malay Peninsula, south to Johore, and have the 

 scapulars deep blue, not black. All of our considerable series from 

 the Malay Peninsula, south to Johore, Borneo and Sumatra, differ 

 from a pair of adults from Java in having the blue of the upper 

 surface deej)er and less turquoise. If the distinction can be main- 

 tained, and judging from analogy it is probably a real one, our birds 

 will have to be called Alcedo meninting verreattxi De la Berge, 

 Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (2), iii, 1851, p. 305, pi. 9 (Borneo) — the bird 

 described and figured being an immature female. 



190. Alcedo meninting scintillans Stuart Baker 



Alcedo beavani ( part.), A., pp. 84, 499 ( Tavoy to Malewoon ). 

 Alcedo meninting scintillans, Stuart Baker, Bull. Brit. Oin. Club, 



xxxix, 1918, p. 38 (type locality Bankasoon, and between Lat. 



10° and 16° N. ) ; M.,'p. 433 (Peninsular Siam). 



Stuart Baker has separated tliis southern Tenasserim and 

 southern Siam bird on account of the scapulars being black in adult 

 and immature birds alike. We have not yet seen specimens from 

 the area now dealt with. Baker refers one specimen from Klong 

 Wang Hip (Lat. 8=^ N.) to this new race to which, however, our speci- 

 men from Junk Seylon, in aT)Out the same latitude, cannot be 

 attached. 



191. Ceyx tridactylus tridactylus ( Pall. ). 



Alcedo tridactijla, Pallas, Spic. Zool. vii, 1760, p. 10, ab. 2. fig. 1 

 (India : Assam restricted). 



1. Oyldenstolix-, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, .louin. X. H. Hoc. Siam. iii, 1919. 



.56, No. 2. 191(i. (first part). 



J. Robinson. .lourn. F. M. S. Mus. vii. 1917. Baker, Joum. \. H. Soo. Siam. iii. 1919. 



K- Kloss, Ibis, 1918. (second part). 



L. Robinson and Kloss, .lourn. N. H. Soc. Siam, M.I. Bakt'r, .loiini. X. H. Soo. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii. 1919. Uhirdpart.). 



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