332 Mr. D. A. Bannei-man on the [Ibis, 



iti company Avith M. apiaster (Catalogo, p. 38). He had no 

 specimens, however. 



Range. The Green Bee-eater inhabits north Africa and 

 extends south as far as Senegambia. Various races have 

 been described. 



Family AlcedinidyE. 



Halcyon leucocephala. White-headed Kingfisher. 



A specimen of what was probably H. leucocephala acteon. 

 or possibly H. leucocephala leucocephala was identified by BoUe 

 (J. f. O. 1857, p. 319) in the Binna collection in Tenerife 

 as Halcyon rufiventris Dolirn (= H. erythrorhynchus Gould 

 = H. leucocephala acteon^. 



The bird was said to have been obtained in Tenerife. 

 Polatzek, referring to this specimen, says that Cabrera told 

 him that it was said to have been shot "^ in the mountains " 

 (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 121). 



Cabrera (Catalogo, p. 39) notes that he never observed 

 this bird in the Canaries, but remarks that it may occur 

 accidentally, as it is so common in the Cape Verde 

 Islands. 



Hartert rightly rejected this species from his list (Nov. 

 Zool. 1901, p. 307) on tlie ground that it may have been 

 brought to the island as a skin. Very little seems to be 

 known of the Binna collection, so often referred to by older 

 writers. Whether this colletion was composed only of 

 locally killed specimens is not stated by anyone. 



Range. H. I. leucocephala ranges from Senegal southwards, 

 and across Africa. H, I. acteon is confined to the Cape Verde 

 Islands. Lesson described Dacelo acteon in Traite d'Orn. 

 1831, p. 247— Type locality: "Cap Vert (' San Yago')." 

 The type locality is supplied by Pucheran (Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1853, p. 392), cf. Claude Grant (Ibis, 1915, p. 266). 

 Lesson gives no type locality himself. Either form might 

 have found its way to the Canary Islands. 



