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the back and scapularies dull green, with a faint blue lustre here 
and there ; whole of the back very rich cobalt ; wing-coverts green- 
ish, more distinctly washed with blue; quills brown, the inner web 
pale ochre at the base, the exterior web, especially of the secon- 
daries, externally edged with bright blue; tail bright blue above, dark 
brown beneath; entire under surface very deep ochre; bill dark 
vermilion; feet dark red. Total length 14 inches, of bill from 
front 3:4, from gape 3°7, wing 6, tail 3-8, tarsus 0°5, middle toe 
1, hind toe 0°5. 
Hab. Tavoy, Tenasserim Provinces (Briggs); Burmah (Blyth ; 
mus. Lord Walden); Siam (Schomburgk ; Mouhot;mus. J. Gould) ; 
Andaman Islands (Tyétler, Beavan). 
This species may be distinguished at a glance by the colouring of 
the cap, which is always of a light grey, very different from the dark 
brown cap of P. gurial. Its principal habitat seems to be Burmah, 
whence it ranges into Siam to the eastward, and perhaps into the 
Malayan peninsula to the southward. 
The plates of Reichenbach’s work are so inaccurate that it is only 
doubtfully that I refer the figures given in his ‘ Tabule’ to the 
present species. Its range is stated by him to be the Cape of Good 
Hope, South and South-eastern Africa generally (Dresden Mu- 
seum), which statement naturally does not aid one in a correct de- 
termination of the locality of the specimens figurede 
8. PELARGOPSIS FLORESIANA, sp. nov. Flores Kingfisher. 
Martin-pécheur du Cap de Bonne Espérance, Buff. Pl. Enl. 590. 
Halcyon leucocephalus, Wald. P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 484 (nee Gm.). 
Halcyon capensis, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 335 (1837, nec 
Linn.). 
Head (distinctly capped) pale brown, with a bluish-green lustre ; 
cheeks, sides of the neck, and a collar encircling the back of the 
neck pale ochre; upper part of the back and scapularies ultramarine 
with a tinge of green; back rich cobalt, deepening into ultrama- 
rine on the rump and upper tail-coverts; quills brownish black, 
the inner web pale ochre at the base, the outer web, especially of the 
secondaries, washed with blue; tail rich blue above, black beneath ; 
under surface of the body deep ochre, much paler on the throat ; 
bill dark sealing-wax red, black at the tip; feet dark red. Total 
length 13:5 inches, of bill from front 3:2, from gape 3°7, wing 5:7, 
tail 3:6, tarsus 0°45, middle toe 1, hind toe 0°45. 
Hab. Flores (Wallace). 
In all specimens of the Stork-billed Kingfisher that I have examined 
from the island of Flores, there has always been a very distinct 
greenish lustre on the head; and as the colour of the cap is always 
a pale brown, and these characters appear to be constant, I do not 
hesitate to separate it specifically, 
Buffon’s plate represents the bird with a green head ; I have care- 
fully compared an adult Flores specimen with the description given 
by him, and it agrees very well indeed ; so that I think it extremely 
probable that the present species formed the subject of his plate. I 
