1870.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE GENUS PELARGOPSIS. 63 
Total length 14 inches, of bill from front 3-3, from gape 3°5, wing 
5:9, tail 3°7, tarsus 0°45, middle toe 1°1, hind toe 0°5. 
Hab. Celebes and Sula Islands ( Wallace). 
This is the most distinct species of the genus, easily recognizable 
by its jet-black bill. It appears to be by no means rare in the island 
of Celebes, several beautiful specimens having been forwarded to me 
from thence by my friend Mr. W. T. Fraser, from one of which the 
above description has been taken. 
2. PELARGOPSIS AMAUROPTERA (Pears.). 
Halcyon amauroptera, Pears. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1841, p. 635; 
Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 94 (1843); Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. 
p- 79 (1846); Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 313 (1849); 
Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 155 (1850); Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. 
Mus. p. 10 (1852); Horsf. and Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E. I. Co. 
i. p. 124 (1854); Jerdon, Birds of India, i. p. 224 (1862); Blyth, 
Ibis, 1866, p. 347. 
Ramphalcyon amauroptera, Reich. Handb. Aleced.p.17, t. cecclxxxi. 
f. 3407 (1851); Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 10 (1854). 
Pelargopsis amauroptera, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 157 
(1860). 
Entire head, neck, and under surface of the body yellowish cinna- 
mon; upper part of the back, scapularies, and wing-coverts choco- 
late-brown ; entire back and rump silvery cobalt ; quills chocolate- 
brown, the inner web light cinnamon at the base; tail-coverts and 
tail chocolate-brown, darker underneath ; bill and feet sealing-wax 
red. Total length 13 inches, of bill from front 3, from gape 3-5, 
wing 5°8, tail 4, tarsus 0°5, middle toe 1, hind toe 0°5. 
Hab. Bengal (Sundurbuns especially); Arakan ; Tenasserim pro- 
vinces ; very abundant along the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal, 
not yet observed on the western. Not rare in the vicinity of Cal- 
cutta (Blyth), Assam (Mus. H. B. Tristram). 
I cannot understand how this very distinct and clearly characterized 
species could ever have been united under any circumstances to the 
more common P, gurial. The whole distribution of the colouring and 
the brown scapularies at once distinguish it. My description is from 
an Assamese specimen, kindly lent me by the Rev. H. B. Tristram. 
3. PELARGOPSIS GOULDI, sp. n. 
Whole head and neck and the whole of the under surface of the 
body rich ochre ; upper part of the back, scapularies, wing-coverts, 
upper tail-coverts, and upper surface of the tail green, slightly in- 
clining to blue on the latter ; whole of the back and rump silvery 
cobalt ; quills blackish, the inner web pale orange at the base, the 
exterior web of the primaries and nearly the whole of both webs of 
the secondaries bright cobalt ; bill rich vermilion; feet dark red. 
Total length 13 inches, of bill from front 3°2, from gape 3°6, 
wing 6, tail 3°5, tarsus 0°5, middle toe 1, hind toe 0°5. 
Hab. Philippines, Island of Luzon (Cuming; mus. J. Gould). 
