312 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a’. Lower parts lilac and rufous. 
b'. Smaller; wing and tail shorte 
Aes 
ct. A bright blue spot behind eaY-coverts..................--.--------.- melanura (p. 312) 
c. No bright blue spot behind ear-coverts....................-.-- mindanensis (p. 312) 
b*. Larger; wing and: tailelongert.i2.-222..282-S44-20--:----- samarensis (p. 313) 
«?. Lower parts yellow, or yellow washed with rufous. 
bt. Above rufous, or black and rufous, washed with more or less lilac. 
euerythra (p. 314) 
b*. Above silvery cobalt to deep ultramarine-blue but with ( bournsi (p. 316) 
NOW MORGU St foe see ee ES. ah an mee | goodfellowi (p. 318) 
275. CEYX MELANURA Kaup. 
KAUP’S KINGFISHER. 
Ceyx melanura Kaup, Fauna Eisv. (1848), 15; SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1892), 17, 180 (part); Hand-List (1900), 2, 53; Bourns and 
WorcESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Oce. Papers (1894), 1, 46; 
McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 53. 
Luzon (Heriot, Méllendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead). 
“Adult.—Above lilac-rufous, washed with lilac; edge of wing rufous; 
scapulars rufous like the back, with a broad band of black on each side 
of mantle; wing-coverts black, spotted minutely with bright blue; alula, 
primary-coverts, and quills black; tail-feathers rufous like the back, the 
lateral ones blackish; crown lilac-rufous, with faint but distinct spots 
of brighter lilac; lores pale orange; eyelid and a mark in front of eye 
blackish ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks lilac-rufous, succeeded by 
a band of white on the sides of the neck, above which is a spot of bright 
blue; throat white; fore neck, breast, sides of body, and flanks bright 
lilac-rufous; abdomen white; thighs and under tail-coverts rufous, as 
well as the under wing-coverts and axillars and the imner edge of the 
quills. Length, 127; culmen, 30; wing, 53; tail, 18; tarsus, 9. 
“Young.—Exactly similar to the adults, but with a shorter and paler 
bill, the latter being horny whitish.” (Sharpe.) 
276. CEYX MINDANENSIS Steere. 
MINDANAO KINGFISHER. 
Ceyxa mindanensis STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 10; 
SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 181 (foot note) ; Hand-List 
(1900), 2, 53; BourNns and WorcEsTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 47; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1906), 53. 
Ceyax basilanica STEERE, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 10. 
Ceyx platene Buastus, Jour. fiir Orn. (1890), 141. 
Basilan (Steere Eap., Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Steere,. Steere Exp., 
Platen, Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow). 
