ALCEDINID^E. 415 



2024. Alcedo semitorquata. 



Alcedo semitorquata, Swains. Zool. 111. iii, pi. 151: Sharpe, 

 Mon. AlceJ. p. 27, pi. 7. 



a Africa? (N. G. Strickland] 1838. 6 (Dewgard] 1851. 



A widely-i-anging African species. 



2025. Alcedo beryllina. 



Alcedo beryllina, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. xix. p. 414: 

 Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 31, pi. 9. 



Alcedo biru, Horsf. Trans. L. S. xiii. p. 172. 

 a Java (N. G. Strickland) 1838. 



COUYTHORNIS. 



Corythornis, Kaup. Fam. Eisv. p. 10 (1848). 



2026. Corythornis cristatus. 



Alcedo cristata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 178. 

 Corythornis cristata, Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 35, pi. 11. 

 a <J Cape of Good Hope (A. Strickland] 1833. 



ALCYONE. 

 Alcyone, Swainson, Classif. B. ii. p. 336 (1837). 



2027. Alcyone azurea. 



Alcedo azurea, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxii. 



Alcyone azurea, Gould, B. Austr. ii. pi. 25: Sharpe, Mon. 

 Alced. p. 41, pi. 13. 



a New South Wales (M c Donald] 1838. b Cape York, 15 

 October 1848 (Argent) 1852. 



CERYLE. 

 Ceryle, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316. 



2028. Ceryle guttata. 



Alcedo guttatus, Vig. P. Z. S. 1830-1, p. 22: Gould, Cent. B. 

 Him. pi. 5. 



Ceryle guttata, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 234: Sharpe, Mon. Alced. 

 p. 57, pi. 18. 



a $ Kumaon (W. J. E. Boys] 1847. 



