1875.] THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 321 



Mr. Strickland was the first author who suggested the Philippines as the probable only 

 habitat of this Kingfisher (Ann. N. H. 1844, vol. xiii. p. 34). 



Dr. V. Martens includes Entomohia fusca (Bodd.), as well as this species, in his list of 

 Philippine birds {torn. cit. p. 17, no. 79), and quotes Meyen as his authority. Meyen (Nov. Act. 

 xvi. suppl. prim. 94), however, states in decided terms that tlie Philippine species is distinct from 

 A. smyrnensis, L. ; and he adopts lUiger's title of A. rufirostris. Mr. Sharpe {op. cit. pt. x. 

 pi. 79) also includes the Philippines within the range of A. smyrnensis, L., but on, apparently, 

 no better evidence than Professor Schlegel's record of a Philippine specimen in the Leyden 

 Museum (Mus. P.-Bas, AJccdines, p. 28). The probabilities are that the lieyden example, if 

 really from the Philippines, belongs to E. gularis (Kuhl), a title treated by Professor Schlegel 

 {I. c.) as a synonym oi A. fusca, Bodd. The occurrence of Entomolia smyrnensis (Linn.) =: A. fusca, 

 Bodd., in the Philippines rests upon no other evidence whatever, and certainly requires 

 confirmation. 



45. En'tomobia pileata. 



Martin-fecheur cle la Chine, D'Aubent., PL Enl. 673. 



Le Martin-pecheur a coiffe noire, Buffon, Hist. Nat. vii. p. 189, "la Chine" (1780). 



Alcedo 'pileata, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 41 (1783), ex D'Aubent. ; Sharpe, Monogr. pi. 3. 



Hah. Philippines {fide Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Alcedines, p. 27). 



That this species inhabits the Philippines is not improbable ; but a single example in the 

 Leyden Museum, said to be from those islands, collector not named, appears to be the only 

 evidence of the fact. Mr. Sharpe (/. c.) seems to take it for granted ; and Professor Schlegel 

 (Vog. Ned. Ind., Alced. pp. 22, 54) includes the Philippines, without hesitation, within the range 

 of this Kingfisher. 



Alcedo albiventris, Sco-p.,=: Alcedo luzonica, Gm., both founded on ^onnexdX' s Martin-pecheur 

 de Visle de Lugon, Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 65, pi. 31, is a well-known African form. 



To Tanysiptera mjmplia, G. E. Gray (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1841, p. 237, " Pair, incert.," Tr. Z. S. is. 

 described from an imperfect specimen of a New-Guinea Kingfisher), Prince Bonaparte (Consp. i. 

 p. 157) erroneously ascribed a Philippine origin; and it consequently found a place in Dr. v. 

 Martens's list {torn. cit. p. 18). 



Calialcton, Bonajjarte. 



46. Calialcton coromanda. 



Le Martin-pecheur violet des Indes, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p, 212, pL 118. 



Alcedo coromanda f, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 252 (1790), ex Sonn. ; Sharpe, Monogr. pi. 69. 



Bacelo coromandeliana (Scopoli), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Alcedines, p. 24. 



Hah. Philippines {Schlegel, fide Verreaux). 



t This species is treated by Mr. Sharpe (Monogr. Alcedinidce, pp. xiii, liv) as the type of Entomothera, Horsf . (Tr. L. 

 Soc. xiii. p. 173, note, 1820). The term Entomothcrce was used by Dr. Horsficld (for he -wrote it iu the plural only) to 

 indicate his second division of the Liunoeau genus Alcedo, a section ■within which he embraced A. {C\i/.v) tridacti/la, 

 A. {Pelargopsis) leucocephala, A. {Calidlcyon') coromanda, A. (Saurojiatis) chlorocepliala, and A. {Entomohia) melamptera. 

 There is nothing contained m Dr. Horsfield's observations to indicate A. coromanda as the typo, or even as typical of, his 

 Eatomothcroi. 



