152 VISCOUNT WALDEN ON THE BIEDS 



Melittophas hypofflaucus, Reichenb. Handb. p. 82 (1854). 



Melittophas bicolor (Bodd.), ap. Cab. Mus. Hein. pt. 2, p. 137, "Malacca, Borneo, Sumatra/' nee 



Bodd. 

 Merops badius, Gm., auct. recent., nee Gm. 

 Le Guepier de Sumatra, Less., Complem. Buffon, ii. Ois. 3nd ed. pi. — , f. 2 (1840). 



According to Dr. Pucheran [l. c), M. cyanofygius. Lesson, adult, was founded on a 

 Sumatran and a Javan example. Prince Bonaparte (Consp. i. p. 162) gives Sumatra 

 and Borneo as the habitat. There is probably an error in the assigned Javan origin of 

 this Bee-eater ; for its occurrence in Java rests on no good authority. The type of M. 

 cyanopygius. Lesson, juv., ex Sumatra, Dr. Pucheran remarks, resembles PI. Enl. 57. 

 It may be M. philippmus, Linn. ; for that species inhabits Sumatra ; or it may be M. 

 sumatranus, juv., before the chocolate plumage of the upper surface, and the blue 

 colouring of the throat have been assumed. 



CORACID^. 



EuKTSTOMUS, Vieillot. 



37. EURTSTOMUS ORIENTALIS. 



Galgulus indicus, Brisson, Orn. ii. p. 75, no. 4, " India orientalis." 



Coracias orientalis, Linn. S.-N. i. p. 154, no. 4 (1776), ex Brisson; Un. St. Expl. Exped. Zool. 

 p. 228 ; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 100. 



Hab. Luzon, February ; Cujo Island, December ; Guimaras, March {Meyer) ; Negros 

 (i. C. Layard), 



As determined by Dr. Meyer, the sexes do not differ. Javan, Malaccan, Celebean, 

 and Philippine examples are identical. 



ALCEDINID^. 



Alcedinin^. 



Alcedo, LinnEBUs. 



38. Alcedo bengalensis. 



Little Indian Kingfisher, Edwards, Ulustr. i. p. 11, pi. 11. fig. inf., " Bengal." 

 Ispida bengalensis, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 475, ex Edwards. 



Alcedo bengalensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 450, no. 20 (1788), ex Brisson; Sharpe, Monogr. Alcedinida, 

 pi. 68. 



Hab. Luzon {Meyer). 



Le vintsi of Buffon (Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 205), and called by D'Aubenton (PI. Enl. 

 756) Petit Martin-j)echeur de I'isle de Lupon, is now known to be a purely African 

 species, Corythornis cristata (Linn.). 



