On two remarkable new Species of Kingfishers. 231 



XXIX. — Description of two remarkable new Species of King- 

 fishers. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &'c, 

 Department of Zoology, British Museum. 



Mr. Charles Huntein, who is collecting in South-eastern 

 New Guinea, has forwarded to the British Museum a series of 

 birds obtained by him on the East Cape, in Milne Bay, and 

 neighbouring localities. Amongst many interesting birds 

 there are two which are undoubtedly new to science, both of 

 them being members of the family Alcedinidae. 



Genus Tanysiptera. 



Tanysiptera Danae, sp. n. 



T. affinis T. mjmpJue, Gray, sed pileo dorsoque brunneis, supercilio 

 et facie laterali tota rufo -brunneis facile distinguenda. Long. tot. 

 10*5, culm. 1*25, ate 3'45, caudse 6-4, tarsi 06. 



Lest any idea should occur that this species could be a 

 stage of plumage of T. nympha, which it agrees with in the 

 crimson under surface and lower back, it is well to state that 

 the collection contained numerous examples of T. Danae, 

 young birds as well as adult. 



With the exception of Tanysiptera obiensis of Salvadori, 

 from the Obi group of islands, and T. Emilice, Sharpe, from 

 Raow, the British Museum contains examples of every species 

 of the genus ; and I may notice here that, having now seen 

 several specimens of T. salvadoriana, Ramsay, from Port 

 Moresby, I am convinced that it is distinct from T. sylvia, 

 Gould, of Cape York. The discovery of the new species 

 described in this paper will bring the number of Tanysipterai 

 known to inhabit the island of New Guinea up to five, no 

 other island in the Papuan archipelago as yet possessing more 

 than one. 



Clytoceyx, gen. nov. 



Genus novum Daceloninarum, rostro quam cauda breviore, culmine 

 laevi rotundato, rectricibus 12, commissura integra, naribus 

 linearibus, tarso longiore quam halluce cum ungue mensurato, 

 rostro magno obtuso, altitudine ad nares mensurata ejus latitu- 

 dinem aequante insignissimum. 



Typus est 



Clytoceyx rex, sp. n. 



S . Capite brunneo ; plumis oculum circumcingentibus et facie 

 laterali brunneis ; regione parotica nigra usque ad collum posti- 

 cum nigrum producta et torquem latam formante ; fascia supra- 

 parotica, genis imis et fascia lata cervicali ochrascenti-fulvis ; 

 interscapulio nigro ; scapularibus et tectricibus alarum brunneis, 



