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and instead Seba's and Brissou's KiugtisliL-r is most erroueoush' added as a 

 s)uonym. How it was possible to identify Edwards' and Seba's figures as the 

 same bird is unexplaiuable ; bnt Linnaens committed several similar atrocities, 

 and his carelessness cannot induce ns to accept his name " rlen, " for the Amlioinese 

 KiDg:fisher. This group of Tanysiptera should have the following nomenclature : — 



a. Tatujsiptem Iii/drocharis na'is Gray. 



Taiii/xijitfni iiuTs Gray, P.Z.S. 1860. p. 346. "Amboyna," type in coll. Wallace, fin tlie British 

 Museum — of. Cal. li. xvii. p. 311— a skin from Ceram is marked as the ''tvpe of species" 

 — should have been said type of T. luiis — but this of course is an error, committed when 

 Wallace's birds were labelled afterwards.) 



Tunysipteni deii (tea Nt'V. Zkol. 1901. p. 158. 



JIab. Amboina, L'eram, Manawoka, Goram, Boeuo, Manipa. 



b. Tani/siptera hydrocharis riedeli Verr. 



Tani/sijjkra riedeli Verreaux, Nouv. Arch. Mas. Bull. ii. p. 11. PI. Ill (Mysori). 

 Tanysiptem ilea riedeli Xov. ZooL. 1901. p. 158. 



Ilah. Biak and Korrido (Schouten Islands or Misori) in Geelvink Bay. 



c. Tanysiptera hydrocharis ellioti Sharpe. 



Tatiysiptera ellioti Sharpe. P. Z. S. 1869. p. 630. (Locality doubtful : hitherto only known from 

 Koffiao.) 



Tani/sijtltra ilni elliuli Nov. Zijui,. 1901. p. 159. 



II<(1>. Koffiao, near Mysol. 



d. Tanysiptera hydrocharis rosscliana Tristr. 



Tanysiplera rosseliaim Tristram, Ibis 1889. p. 557 (Rossel Island). 

 Tiinyni>iem dea rosscliana Nov. ZooL. 1901. p. 159. 



IJab. Rossel Island, Louisiade group. 



e. Tanysiptera hydrocharis margarethae Heine. 



Tiinyniplcra .Maryanthue Heine, /./. 0. 1859. p. 406 (no exact locality ; I substitute Batjau !). 

 Tanyaijilcra ilea murgareOiae Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 159. 



Jlab. Northern Moluccas : Batjan, Halmahera, and Morty. 



/. Tanysiptera hydrocharis acis AVall. 



Tanytipkra w-is Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863. pp. -23. 24 (Buru). 

 Tauysipkra ilea acis Nov. ZuOL. 1901. jj. 160. 



Had. Buru. 



g. Tanysiptera hydrocharis obiensis Salvad. 



Taiiyiiipkm obiensis Salvadori, Ami. .Vus. Cic. Genora n. p. 302 (1877 : Obi). 

 Tanysiptera dea obiensis Nov. ZooL. 1901. p. 160. 



Hab. Obi Islands, Central Moluccas. ' 



h. Tanysiptera hydrocharis hydrocfmris Gray. 



Tatiysijitera hydrocharis Gray, P. Z. S. 1858. pp. 172. 190 (Aru Islands). 

 Tanysiptera dea hydrocharis Nov. ZooL. 1901. p. IGO. 



JJab. Aru Islands. 



