66 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE GENUS PELARGOPSIS. [Jan. 27, 
After carefully comparing a skin of the adult Javan bird with 
Brisson’s elaborate description, I believe that his “Ispida capitis 
bone spei” was really taken from a Javan specimen. Consequently 
the species stands primarily as Alcedo capensis, Linn. But in the 
face of the manifest incongruity of such an appellation, I believe 
myself justified in proposing a new name for the bird, and I therefore 
take the opportunity of connecting with it the name of my friend 
Mr. W. T. Fraser, of Soerabaya, Java, to whom I am indebted for 
many kind remittances of Javan Kingfishers. 
It is very seldom that we meet with a specimen of P. fraseri with 
any thing like a distinct cap. Mr. Wallace’s collection, however, 
contains a specimen obtained by himself in Eastern Java which has 
the cap very distinct, like the bird figured by Professor Reichenbach 
(1. c.). The species, however, differs from P. burmanica by always 
having an admixture of ochre, sometimes very distinct, in the feathers 
of the head. 
6. PELARGOPSIS GURIAL. 
Halcyon gurial, Pears. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1841, p. 633 (deser. 
orig.); Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 47 (1849); Bonap. 
Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 155 (1850); Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 228 ; Blyth, 
Ibis, 1865, p. 30. 
Ramphaleyon gurial, Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 16, t. eccexxvi. 
(1851). 
Pelargopsis gurial, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 156 
(1860). 
Halcyon capensis, Jerd. Madr. Journ. 1840, p. 231; Blyth, Ann. 
Nat. Hist. xii. p. 94 (1843). 
Halcyon brunniceps, Jerd. Madr. Journ. 1844, p. 143. 
Halcyon leucocephalus (part.), Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. 
E.-I. Co. p. 123 (1854). 
Halcyon leucocephalus, Jerdon, Birds of India, i. p. 222 (1862); 
Day, Land of Perm. p. 460 (1863) ; Beav. Ibis, 1865, p. 407; Blyth, 
Ibis, 1866, p. 347. 
Gurial of the Bengalese (Pearson). 
Mala-poyma of the natives of Malabar (Jerdon). 
Head dark chocolate-brown; sides of the neck and a collar en- 
circling the same pale ochre; upper portion of the back and sca- 
pularies dull green; rest of the back rich greenish cobalt; wing- 
coverts dull green with a faint blue lustre; quills black, the inner 
web yellowish white at the base, the outer edge of the whole of the 
feathers greenish blue; tail greenish blue above, black beneath ; 
under surface of the body ochre, palest on the throat ; bill very dark 
sealing-wax red; feet dull red. Total length 14 inches, of bill 
from front 3°1, from gape 3°7, wing 6°4, tail 3°6, tarsus 0°5, middle 
toe 1°], hind toe 0°5. 
Hab, All India, from the extreme south to Bengal and Ceylon; 
common in Malabar; rarely seen in the Carnatic and upon the table- 
land ; occasionally found in Central India and the Northern Circars ; 
