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58. Tiga javanensis (Ljung). 



An adult female. " Iris moderately dark red-brown." A young male in fullest 

 moult, shot in the low country. " Iris dark brown ; feet bluish ; maxilla mostly 

 black ; mandible bluish white." This is one of the few species which were shot and 

 preserved by Wallace on his memorable visit to Bali. The bill seems a little larger 

 in these birds than in skins from Borneo before me. 



59. Dendrocopus analis (Horsf.). 



A series from the low country, quite like the Java birds. $ and ? . " Iris dark 

 red-brown ; maxilla pale slaty grey ; mandible slaty grey in the middle, whitish on 

 the sides." 



60. Thriponax javensis (Horsf.). 



c?, low country. "Iris pale yellow ; maxilla black ; mandible blackish at tip, 

 whitish horn-colour towards the base." 



61. Merops philippinus L. 

 Low country. 



62. Melittophagus leschenaulti (Vieill.). 

 Common in the low country. 



63. Alcedo ispida bengalensis (Gm.). 



One female, low country. " Iris deep brown ; feet coral-red ; maxilla black ; 

 mandible red ; claws black." This specimen is rather bright bluish above, almost as 

 blue as A, ispidioides Less. It seems almost fully to agree with A. ispida var. tapro- 

 bana Kleinschmidt, Ornitk. Monatsber. II. p. 126, and is very closely allied to A. ispida 

 Jloresiana (Sharpe), Cat. B. Brit. Mas. XVII. p. 151. In fact these birds seem to 

 bridge over to A. ispidioides Less.* 



64. Alcedo meninting Horsf. 



Three fine specimens from the low country. Two, marked c?, have the cheeks 

 blue, while the third, also marked c?,has the cheeks chestnut-rufous. It is evidently 

 younger, as its bill is much shorter ; beak with the tip pale, but the rest black ; the 

 bands on the head are greenish blue, not deep blue as in the two others ; the back 

 of a much paler blue. This last specimen has on the label : " Beak black, tip 

 whitish ; feet pale orange; iris deep umber-brown." The other two males: "Beak 

 black, extreme base dark red ; feet and claws coral-red; iris deep brown." f 



* From the material now in the Tring Museum it seems evident that A. ispi&ioidvs is not more than a 

 subspecies, connected with A. Ispida bcngalensl* by intermediate forms. Skins from Sambawa (Guillemard 

 coll,) agree in every respect with the bright bird from Bali, which seems to me inseparable from the very 

 remarkable A. ispida var. taprobana, which is not rare in Ceylon ; nevertheless A. ispida bengalensis, the 

 usual paler Indian form, is also not uncommonly found in Ceylon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



f It is this species, A. meninting Horsf., and not A. beavani (if the latter is more thaa a subspecies I), 

 which extends to Celebes, whence we have a number of skins. The specimens enumerated by Sharpe in 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mux. XVII. p. 161, at the end of the list of specimens of A. beavani, seem to be 

 A meninting, and were probably enumerated on p. 161, instead of on the foregoing page, by a mistake. 

 WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



