308 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus ALCYONE Swainson, 1837. 
The Philippine species here MMed in Alcyone are scarcely separable 
generically from those of the next following genus. They feed along 
small forest streams wherein they differ from the members of the genus 
Ceyx which are always found away from water in forest or in thickets. 
Species. 
a’. Back and upper tail-coverts cobalt-blue; head spotted with cobalt-blue; chin 
and throat orange-buff. : 
bt. Lower mandible dark red; spots on crown smaller........ cyanopectus (p. 308) 
b*. Lower mandible black; spots on crown larger.................. nigrirostris (p. 311) 
a, Back and upper tail-coverts black, more or less spotted with white; chin and 
throat white. 
bt Breastrandusides dark) oneentshi jolene cose ee eeee eee argentata (p. 309) 
O°, Breast, and. sides, purplish Dlwe. nce ne cases esetccn ce xenanesdane flumenicola (p. 310) 
271. ALCYONE CYANOPECTUS (Lafresnaye). 
BLUE-BREASTED KINGFISHER. 
Ceyxz cyanopectus LAFRESNAYE,:’ Rey. Zool. (1840), 33; McGrecor, Bur. 
Govt. Labs. (1905), 25, 13, pl. 10. 
Ceyx cyanipectus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 185; Hand- 
List (1900), 2, 53; BourNns and Worcester, [bis (1895), 404; Min- 
nesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 48. 
Ceyx steerii SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 187. 
Alcyone cyanipectus GRANT, Ibis (1895), 112, 464; Warreneap, Ibis (1899), 
385. 
Alecyone cyanopectus McGREGOR and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 52. 
Sal-pac’, Ticao and Masbate. 
Luzon (Cuming, Heriot, Méllendorff, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead) ; Marin- 
duque (Steere Bxp.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Mindoro (Steere 
ELxp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester, 
McGregor); Ticao (McGregor). 
Male.—Lores orange-chestnut; sides of face, crown, and occiput deep 
blue, the feathers tipped with silvery cobalt; back, rump, and tail-coverts 
silvery cobalt; scapulars black, widely edged with dark blue; wings black, 
secondaries edged with dark blue; secondary-coverts dark blue, each 
feather with a spot of silvery cobalt; a large spot of orange-chestnut on 
side of neck; throat orange-chestnut, much paler on chin; middle of 
abdomen and a large spot on center of breast orange-chestnut; rest of 
under parts deep ultramarine-blue and forming two bands across the 
breast ; axillars and wing-lining orange-chestnut; tail dark blue. A male 
from Mindoro measures: Length, 145; wing, 60; tail, 23; exposed 
culmen, 35. 
Female.—Similar to the male, but all the lower parts deep orange- 
chestnut except the pale throat and a single dark blue band across the 
breast. A female from Mindoro measures: Length, 152; wing, 61; tail, 
23; exposed culmen, 35. 
“We found A. cyanopectus abundantly in Masbate. In Sibuyan it was 
