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EURYSTOMUS AZUREUS. | B.M. 
Bronzy-black, tinged with green on the back ; the feathers of the 
wings, rump, and beneath the body broadly margined with deep blue, 
but the latter varying, in certain lights, to bright cobalt-blue, espe- 
cially on the quills, tail-feathers, and beneath the body ; the throat 
blue, with the shaft of each feather more bright ; the quills near the 
middle with a pale verditer spot. 
Bill and feet red. 
Length 13" 6'", wings 8", bill from gape 1" 9!"". 
Batchian. 
Eurystomus pileatus, Reinw. Molucca. 
ALCEDINID. 
*HALCYON FUNEBRIS. B.M. 
Halcyon funebris, Forst., Pr. B. Consp. Av. i. p. 157. 
Cyanaleyon funebris, Pr. B. 
Djilolo. 
Haxcyon couzaris (var.). B.M. 
Alcedo collaris, Scop. Del. Flor. & Faun. Insubr. p. 90. 
Halcyon collaris, Swains. Zool. Ilustr. pl. 27. 
Batchian and Gilolo. 
The bill appears to be of a smaller size than those of the Indian 
continent. 
HALCYON LAZULI. B.M. 
Alcedo lazuli, Temm. Pl. Col. 508. 
Halcyon lazuli, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 79. 
Todiramphus lazuli, Pr. B. Consp. Av. p. 157. 
Amboyna. 
HAucyon DIOPS. B.M. 
Alcedo diops, Temm. Pl. Col. 272. 
Halcyon diops, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 79. 
Todiramphus diops, Pr. B. Consp. Av. p. 157. 
Amboyna, Ternate, Batchian, and Gilolo. 
*HALCYON SANCTUS. 
Halcyon sancta, Vig. & Horsf. Linn. Trans. 
Ternate. (Wail. Coll.) 
TANYSIPTERA NAIs. 
Alcedo dea, Linn.? 
Upper surface black, with the feathers broadly margined with in- 
digo, those of the cheeks, nape, and wing-coverts brighter blue ; top 
of the head margined with silvery-blue; eyebrows, round the occi- 
put, shoulder of wings, and the narrow central portion of the two 
middle tail-feathers verditer-blue; beneath the body, rump, and 
