322 ON THE BIRDS INHABITING [1875. 



The occurrence of this species in the Philippines rests solely on the somewhat doubtful 



authority cited. 



Saueopatis, Cabanis. 



47. Saukopatis chloris. 



Le Martin-pecheur a tete verte, Buffon, Hist. Nat. vii. p. 190, "Bouro." 

 Marti n-pecheur a tete verte du Cap-de-Bonne-Esperance, D'Aubent. PL Enl. 783. f. 2. 

 Alcedo clilons, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 49 (1783), ex D'Aubent. 



Le Martin-pecheur a collier blanc des Philippines, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 67, pL 33. 

 Alcedo collaris. Scop. Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 90, no. 56 (1786), ex Sonn. ; Kittlitz, 

 Kupfert. pt. 2, p. 10, pi. xiv. f. 1, "Luzon" (1833). 



Halcyon chloris (Bodd.), Sharpe, Monogr. pi. 87 ; Walden «& Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 101 f. 



Hah. Luzon, Zebu, Guimaras {Meyer) ; Negros {L. C. Layard). 



AcTENOiDES, Hombron & Jacquinot. 



48. * ACTEJfOIDES HOMBROM. 



Actenoide variee, Hombron & Jacquin. Voy. Astrol. %, Atlas, pi. 23. fig. 2. 

 Actenoides hombroni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 157 (1850), ex Hombr. & Jacquin.; Sharpe, Monogr. 

 pL 115. 



Actenoides variegata, Pucher.& § Jacquin. Voy. Astrol. %, ZooL iii. p. 101, " Mindanao" (1853). 



Hah. Samboangan, Mindanao [Homhr. & Jacquin.). 



Dr. V. Martens {torn. cit. p. 17, no. 81) describes an example of a Kingfisher he observed in 



Tr. Z. S. k. the collection of the Military Library of Manilla in these words : — " Alcedo (Entomobia), sp., 



^^' "" ■ above brown, with pale spots ; underneath white, with grey spots. Back of the head and on 



each side a spot at gape, azure blue. Cheeks and throat red brown. Forehead brown, striated 



with black. Allied to A. pulchella, Horsf." 



This may possibly be A. homhroni in immature plumage. 



49. * ACTEXOIDES LIXDSATI. 



Bacelo lindsayi, Vigors, P. Z, S. 1831, p. 97, adult, " neighbourhood of Manilla ; " Sharpe, 

 Monogr. pi. 114 ; Eydoux & Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, pi. 7 ; Gray & Mitch. Genera of Bii-ds, 

 pi. 27. 



Bacelo lessoni. Vigors, I. c, junior. 



Hah. Luzon (Eydoux & Souleyet). 



This and the last species, together with Bacelo concreta, Temm., form a natural subdivision; 

 and I retain for it Ilombron's generic title of Actenoides, merged by Mr. Sharpe in the unwieldy 

 group he has united under the generic name of Halcyon. 



Mr. Sharpe {torn, cit.) enumerates thu-teen Philippine Kingfishers. I have reduced this 

 number to twelve by the exclusion of E. smyrnensis. Satisfactory proof of the Philippine 

 habitat of two others, C. coromanda and E. pileata, is still needed; and the specific validity of 

 Ceyx philippensis has yet to be confirmed. 



t {_Antea, p. 119. — Ed.] % [Apparently a slip of the pen for Yoy. Pole Sud. — Ed.] § [^Lege Hombron &. — Ed.] 



