122 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on the 



the chestnut phase of plumage, the upper parts being like 

 those of the female type described in the last collection, but 

 the outer webs of the scapulars are pale buff, as in the dark- 

 coloured male type, though the subterminal black spots are 

 small, as in the female. The feathers of the throat and of 

 the chest between the white bands are paler chestnut than in 

 the female, and have white middles irregularly edged and 

 barred with black. The belly, flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 brownish white, with a few faint reddish-brown mottlings. 

 In the wing-measurement given of the types of this species 

 (Ibis, 1895, p. 463) I have just observed an unfortunate 

 printer's error, which had escaped my notice, and might be 

 misleading. The wing of B. microrhynchus, given as " 5 52,^' 

 should read 5-5 "2. The measurements of the chestnut male 

 are : — 



Culmen. 



Length. Width at gape. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



in. in. in. in. in. 



0-86 1-25 6-15 41 07 



As will be seen, the length and width of the culmen are 

 slightly greater than in the types. There cannot be the 

 slightest doubt that these three differently-plumaged birds 

 all belong to one species, though Mr. Whitehead was in- 

 clined to believe that the dark and rufous forms represented 

 distinct species. 



39. EuRYSTOMUs ORiENTALis (Linn.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1895, 

 p. Hi. 



A female of the Broad-billed Roller from Cape Engano. 



40. Halcyon coromandus (Lath.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xvii. p. 217 (1892). 



A pair of this widely distributed Lilac-backed Kingfisher 

 from the vicinity of Cape Engaiio. The male has the under- 

 parts cinnamon, slightly paler on the belly, and the chest and 

 upper breast are conspicuously glossed with violet. The 

 female has the underparts altogether paler, especially on the 

 middle of the belly, which is whitish buff, and there is no 

 trace of lilac on the chest. 



