318 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
280. CEYX GOODFELLOW! Grant. 
wikGa | KINGFISHER. 
Ceyx goodfellowi GRANT, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. (1905), 16, 17; Ibis (1906), 
6, 492. 
Mindanao (Goodfellow). 
“Adult male.—Most nearly allied to C. malamaui Steere [=bournsi], 
but the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts are of a brilliant ultramarine- 
blue, tinged with cobalt on the middle of the lower back and rump; the 
feathers of the crown and nape are also tipped with much of the same 
brilhant color; the wing-coverts and scapulars like those of C. malamaui, 
are of a deep purplish blue. ‘Iris dark brown; bill, feet, and nails bright 
vermilion.” (Goodfellow.) Length, 127; wing, 63; tail, 22; culmen, 39; 
tarsus, 107, (Grant: ) : 
This species, described from a single specimen, is doubtfully distinct 
from Ceyx bournst. 
Genus HALCYON Swainson, 1821. 
Bill large; culmen from base less than tail, rounded not flattened ; 
birds of medium size and various bright colors. The species here in- 
cluded in Halcyon are by some authors assigned to at least three genera 
but, other than their style of coloration, the genera Sauwropatis and 
Callialcyon seem to have no tangible characters. Halcyon hombroni, 
lindsayi, and moseleyi stand apart from the other Philippine species of 
the genus because of their short stout bill, longer tail, and peculiar spotted 
plumage. The genus Actenoides might be used for these three species. 
Species. 
a’, Scapulars and wing-coverts unspotted. 
b'. Bill entirely red. 
ec’. Crown uniform in color with wings and tail; above dark rufous-brown 
washed with lilae:.: tj: 6. 2-year ren coromandus (p. 319) 
ce’, Crown not uniform in color with wings and tail. 
@. Crown chestnut-rufous; lower back bright greenish blue. 
gularis (p. 320) 
ad. Crown black; lower back ultramarine-blue...............-..... pileatus (p. 321) 
b*. Bill mostly black. 
ce. Collar and spot in front of eye rufous-brown.................... winchelli (p. 322) 
ce. Collartand spotiin front of eye) whites... een chloris (p. 323) 
a*, Scapulars and wing-coverts more or less spotted. 
6*. Crow and back: Piuel ss 21 AES ee Sa ee ee hombroni (p. 324) 
6°. Crown and back green. 
c’. Breast-feathers edged with green.....................-...- a ceceeselecs lindsayi (p. 325) 
ce’. Breast-feathers edged with black...-..............--.----<--:0-c------ moseleyi (p. 326) 
