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32. Alcedo ispida hispidoides Less. 

 Bafjan : Bernstein, Waterstradt, Guillemard, Platen. 



33. Alcyone azurea aflBnis Gray. 



Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Platpn, Kiikentbal, Vorderman. 



Dumas collected this species on Morty. ((.'f. Nov. Zool. 19UI. p. 144.) 



34. Alcyone pusilla (Temm.). 

 Batjan : Platen, one 7>iri/i'. 



3.">. Ceyx lepida uropy^alis Gray. 



[Ceyj- le/ilila Temm. /'/. Col. 595. f. 1 (18.35 : Amboina).] 



Cey^r iirnjii/gialis G. E. Gray, P.Z. S. 1860. p. 348 (Batjau and Ternate; typical locality therefore 



Batjan). 

 Cfyx lepUh uropygialh Hartert, Xov. Znoi,. VIII. 1901. p. 97. 



Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Beccari, Platen, Dnherty, Waterstradt. 

 36. Tanysiptera hydrocharis margarethae Heine. 



ITain/xijtkra hydrnrhirix Gray, P. Z. -S. lH.'iH. pp. \'il. V»\ ('• Aru Islands '}.] 



Tiinyuplera imrgm-fthue Heine, J.f. 0. 1859. p. 41 nj (" Angeblich von Xeuguinea, wahrscheinlich aber 

 von einer der benachbarten Inseln " : I accept Batjan as the typical locality !). 



Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, GnilJemard (Powell), Platen, Kiikentbal, 

 Doherty, Waterstradt. 



" Iris very deep brown, feet jiale olive-brownisb, claws darker, bill scarlet." 

 (W. Doherty). 



(In NoviTATEs ZooLOGiCAE VIII. ])p. 158 — 102 Mr. Rothschild and I gave a 

 review of the forms of this gronji of Tanysiptera. '\\'e there grouped ten forms as 

 subspecies of one species, calling tliem T. cha ilea, T. d. ricileli, T. d. ellioti, 

 T. (I. rosseliana, T. d. margarcthae, T. d. acis, T. d. obiensis, T. d. hydrocharis, 

 T. d. galatca, T. d. meyeri. 



Authors having quoted the 12th edition of Linnaeus only, we did not compare 

 the loth edition, but in doing so now 1 lind that it is impossible to accept the 

 name dm. Linnaens (ed. x. Sy»t. Nat. i. p. 110, 17.58) names merely Edwards' 

 "Swallow-tailed Kingfisher" (PI. X.), which is no Kingfisher, but one of the 

 lialhididac. In the 12th edition the diagnosis of the Galhvla is repeated, but 

 instead of quoting Edwards, Linnaeus quotes Seba and Brisson, who, nnder the 

 name of " Atis paradisiaca ternatana " and " Ispida ternatana " have described 

 the form of Tanysiptera inhabiting Amboina and C'eram, which they wrongl}- 

 attributed to the island of Ternate, and which is now — cf. 8alvadori, Oru. Fap. i. 

 p. 436 ; iSharpe, (.'at. B. .wii. p. 310 — known as Tanysijitera. dea. It is, never- 

 theless, quite impossible to accept the name dea. First of all we now begin our 

 nomenclature 1758 (10th edition of Linnaeus), and in 1758 ^^ Alcedo dea" refers 

 to Edwards' PI. X., which is a Galbula, Seba being quoted merely as a doubtful 

 synonym. In 1706 (12tli edition of Linnaeux i. ]>. 181) the same diagnosis 

 " A. rectricibus dnabus longissimis medio attenuatis, corpore nigro-caerulescente, 

 alis virescentibus ") is repeated, with the locality Surinam, though the original, 

 from which the diagnosis and locality are taken — i.e. Edwards' PI. X. — is omitted, 



