22 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
ispida, subsp. ispidoides, Less. Three. 26, 9. New Britain (Blanche 
Bay, June ; Ferguson Bay, August). ; 
ispida, svbsp. floresiana, Sharpe. One. ¢. F lores (Waingapo, September). 
semitorquata, Swuins. Six. d. South Africa (Transvaal: De Kaap, Fig 
Tree Creek, May ; Cape of Good Hope). 
euryzona, Zemm. Three. 6, 2. Sumatra. Borneo (Kinabalu (3000 ft.), 
March). 
grandis, Blyth. One. India (Himalayas). 
guentheri, Sharpe. Four. West Africa (Gold Coast: Lagos; Bonny ; 
Gaboon). 
quadribrachys, Bp. One. West Africa (Gold Coast). 
meninting, Horsf. Six. djr, 2. Java. Borneo (Baram, Sarawak). 
beavani, Vuld. One. Burmah (Tonghoo). 
beryllina, Vicill. Six. 3. Java (Sourabaya). 
No. 2 from Sourabaya is the specimen figured by Dr. Sharpe (Monogr. Alced. 
p. 31, pl. ix.). 
CORYTHORNIS, Kaup. 
cristata (Linn.). Fifteen. Madagascar (Moumangaka, April ; Mohambo, 
July ; St. Augustine’s Bay). 
cyanostigma (/tiipp.). Twenty-three. 24, 9,6jr. North-Eastern Africa 
(Ghaba Shambé, July). West Africa (Gambia, Bathurst, January, August, 
November ; Cape Coast Castle; Lagos). South Africa (Potchefstroom, 
March; Kroonstadt, January ; Bechuanaland), 
galerita (P.L.S. Miill.). 
ALCYONE, Swains. 
azurea (Lath.). Six. 1 jr. Australia, November. 
azurea, subsp. pulchra, Gould. One. Northern Australia (Port Essington, 
January). 
leeta, De Vis. Rep. Ornith. Coll. Brit. New Guinea, Append. E ¥, p. 100 (1894). 
“Front and sinciput black, rest of head and nape black, with a subterminal band 
of ultramarine on each feather ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ultramarine ; 
wing-coverts black, with blue tips; chin and upper throat pale lemon; re- 
mainder of under surface deep orange; axillaries and under wing-coverts buff ; 
wing dark brown, with inner lower edge of quills buff, and their upper and outer 
edges washed with blue; scapulars deep blue ; ear-coverts black, broadly tipped 
with blue; lores and a short band on each side of the neck pale buff; legs 
orange ; bill black. Length, 110 mm. ; wing, 54; tail, 25; tarsus, 6; bill, 28. 
Two examples ; one of them, which is immature, has the chin, throat, and fore- 
neck dingy white, only a few feathers of the back tipped with blue, and the bill 
with a pale tip.” (De Vis).- Habitat, Mt. Maneao, British New Guinea. 
lessoni, Cuss. Two. New Guinea. 
affinis, G.R.Gr. 
pusilla (Zemm.). Three. New Guinea. North Australia (Cape York). 
richardsi, Z7ristr. One. ¢. Solomon Islands (Rendova, August). 
Type of the species (Ibis, 1882, p. 134, pl. iv.). 
websteri, Hart. in Cayley Webster's ‘* Through New Guinea,” Append. 1. p. 371 (1898) ; 
id. Ibis, 1899, p. 278, pl. 11. 
« Adult (sex undetermined): above, greenish blue, purer and more ultramarine on 
the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, as well as on the hind neck, forehead 
duller, feathers of lores white, with black tips. The feathers of the upper parts 
and sides of head and neck have, in fact, only wide blue tips, being black at 
base and whitish towards the utmost bases. Tail blue. Primaries and their 
coverts black, primaries whitish grey towards the bases on the inner webs. 
Under parts white with a very slight buffy tinge. Under tail-coverts deeper 
buff with blue tips. Sides of breast blue, flanks striped with blue and blackish ; 
