318 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS COLLECTED BY 



a. cj. Maasin, Panay, Jan. 1875. Eyes dark. 



b, c. <5; d. $ . San Bernardino, Negros, 1875. Eyes dark. 



[There is scarcely any difference in the sexes ; but the female seems a little lighter 

 below, and to have rather a more greenish tinge on the scapulars, back, and tail. 



I noticed this species along the streams, sometimes fishing, but as often feeding on 

 the ground, where its diet seemed to cousist of earth-worms. I saw this, or a closely 

 allied species, near Zamboanga, in Mindanao, but failed to secure it. — J. B. S.] 



Mr. Layard obtained this Kingfisher in Negros ; but Panay is a new locality for it. 



24. Halcyon hombroni, Bp. : Sharpe, Monog. pi. 115. Adenoides hombroni, Walden, 

 t.c. p. 155. 

 a. c? . Dumalon, Mindanao. Eyes haael. 



[Only met with on one occasion, in low thick jungle which was covered every day by 

 the sea. — J. B. S.] 



This Kingfisher is only known from the original type specimen in the Paris Museum, 

 which was obtained in Mindanao by Messrs. Hombron and Jacquinot. I have never 

 seen a skin before ; and the plate in my ' Monograph ' was drawn from a coloured 

 sketch sent over to me from Paris. I therefore give a full description of the adult 

 male in Dr. Steere's collection : — 



Adult male.— Head and nape bright blue, more brilliant on the sides of the head, 

 over the eye, and on the nape ; round the latter a narrow line of deep black ; ear- 

 coverts tawny chestnut ; along the lower line of the lores a streak of black feathers, 

 reaching below the eye, and widening behind the latter, being here shaded with blue ; 

 cheeks bright blue, forming a broad band ; sides of neck and hinder part of the latter 

 deep tawny, varied with narrow black edgings to the feathers ; mantle blackish, mottled 

 with tawny spots, these being subterminal with a narrow black fringe ; middle of back 

 and scapulars and wing-coverts green with a slight shade of verditer, each feather 

 having a distinct subterminal spot of ochraceous buff; quills blackish, externally washed 

 with greenish, the primaries edged with ochraceous, the secondaries with the same sub- 

 terminal spot of ochre as on the wing-coverts ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 bright silvery cobalt, the sides of the back and the lateral coverts blackish washed with 

 blue; tail-feathers deep blue, with black shafts; throat white, slightly washed with 

 tawny ; rest of the under surface deep tawny, whiter on the centre of the abdomen ; the 

 breast-feathers with narrow nearly obsolete blackish margins ; thighs externally black- 

 ish, internally deep tawny; feathers at side of vent, adjoining sides of lower back, deep 

 blue, the outer web more or less ochraceous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries deep 

 tawny ; the quills blackish below, edged with pale tawny-buff along the inner web ; bill 

 coral-red, the culmen black (in skin) ; iris hazel. Total length ITS inches, culmen 2-0, 

 wing 495, tail 4 - 15, tarsus - 75. 



25. Halcyon Winchelli, sp. n. (Plate XLVII.) 



2 ad. supra nigra, purpureo lavata ; dorso postico, uropygio et supracaudalibus argenteo- 



