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A young bird lias the " beak partly blackish " ; the crown darker brown and 

 without any green wash ; feet not so bright red ; feathers of the breast margined with 

 black. 



40. Alcedo ispida floresiana (Sharpe). 



One from Tarn bora, wonderfully bridging over the way from A. ispida bengalensis 

 to A. ispida ispidioides. (This is the Alcedo bengalensis of Guillemard's list.) 



. 

 *41. Ceyx innominata Salvad. 



Six skins from the low country of Bima and Tambora. c? ad. " Iris dark 

 umber-brown ; beak and feet coral-red." A female has the beak and feet " orange," 

 a young bird " pale sordid brown." 



None of these birds is so strongly washed with lilac above as some of my Bali 

 birds, but it seems to me that the stronger lilac wash comes with age. 



I cannot see the differences between C. euerythra Sharpe (Cat. B. XVII. p. 179) 

 and C. innominata. There seems to be no constancy in the colour of the upper parts, 

 older birds being more lilac, nor any in the more or less black scapulars and wing- 

 coverts. A specimen from Bunguran, kindly named for me by Sharpe himself as 

 C. euerythra, has no black whatever on scapulars and wing-coverts. C. dillwynni 

 is probably only subspecifically separable from C. tridactyla on the one hand and 

 C. innominata ( = euerythra) on the other hand. Some of the specimens called 

 C. euerythra in the British Museum are inseparable from C. dillwynni, others 

 inseparable from C. innominata. 



42. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.). 



In the low country at Bima and Tambora. Heads of the two sent lighter than 

 in the Lombok specimens. 



*43. Halcyon sanctus Vig. & Horsf. 

 Tambora, low country and upwards to about 3000 feet. 



*44. Monachalcyon fulgidus (Gould). 



Common in the low country and hills of Tambora, to about 3000 feet. Young 

 birds and nestlings have the back and wing-coverts more or less black, the breast 

 washed with ochreous brown. 



45. Eurystomus orientalis australis (Sw.). 



An adult male, shot in the tow country of Tambora, agrees better with 

 E. australis than with E. orientalis, but stands somewhat between the two forms. 

 The birds of the Lesser Sunda Islands and Celebes seem to connect E. orientalis 

 and E. australis. See on this vexed question, among other places, A. B. Meyer, 

 Mitth. zool. Mm. Dresden, I. 1875, p. 18 ; id., Verh. zool. dot. Ges. 1881, pp. 763, 

 764; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XVII. p. 34 footnote, p. 38 (intermediate 

 specimens !) ; Dresser, Monogr. Comciidae. Sharpe, in the Catalogue of Birds, 

 XVII. p. 37, does not mention the Lesser Sunda Islands at all as the habitat of 

 E. australis, but from his synonymy and his enumerating the specimens from the 



