INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 155 



To Tanysiptera nympha, G. E. Gray (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1841, p. 237, "■ Pair, incert." 

 described from an imperfect specimen of a New-Guinea Kingfisher), Prince Bonaparte 

 (Consp. i. p. 157) erroneously ascribed a Philippine origin; and it consequently found 

 a place in Dr. v. Martens's list {torn. cit. p. 18). 



Calialcyon, Bonaparte. 



46. Calialcyon coromanda. 



Le Martin-pecheur violet des Indes, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 212, pi. 118. 



Alcedo coromanda^, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 252 (1790), ex Sonn. ; Sharps, Monogr. pi. 69. 



Dacelo coromandeliana (Scopoli), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Alcedines, p. 24. 



Hah. Philippines [Schlegel, fide Verreaux). 



The occurrence of this species in the Philippines rests solely on the somewhat 

 doubtful authority cited. 



Satjropatis, Cabanis. 



47. Sauropatis chloris. 



Le Martin-pecheur a tete verte, Buffon, Hist. Nat. vii. p. 190, " Bouro." 



Martin-pecheur a tete verte du Cap-de-Bonne-Esperance, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. 783. f. 2. 



Alcedo chloris, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 49 (1783), ex D'Aubent. 



Le Martin-pecheur a collier blanc des Philippines, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 67, pi. 33. 



Alcedo collaris. Scop. Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 90, no. 56 (1786), ex Sonn; Kittlitz, Kupfert. 



pt. 2, p. 10, pi. xiv. f. 1, " Luzon " (1833). 

 Halcyon chloris (Bodd.), Sharpe, Monogr. pi. 87; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 101. 



Hab. Luzon, Zebu, Guimaras {Meyer) ; Negros {L. C. Layard). 

 AcTENOiDES, Hombron & Jacquinot. 



48. * ACTENOIDES HOMBRONI. 



Actenoide variee, Hombron & Jacquin. Voy. Astrol., Atlas, pi. 23. fig. 2. 



Actenoides hombroni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 157 (1850), ex Hombr. & Jacquin. ; Sharpe, Monogr. pi. 115. 



Actenoides variegata, Pucher. & Jacquin. Voy. Astrol., Zool. iii. p. 101, "Mindanao" (1853). 



Hai. Samboagan, Mindanao {Hombr. & Jacquin.). 



Dr. V. Martens {torn. cit. p. 17, no. 81) describes an example of a Kingfisher he 

 observed in the collection of the Military Library of Manilla in these words : — ''Alcedo 



' This species is treated by Mr. Sharpe (Monogr. Alcedinidaj, pp. xiii, hv) as the type of Entomothera, Horsf. 

 (Tr. L. Soc. xiii. p. 173, note, 1820). The term Entomothera was used by Dr. Horsfleld (for he wrote it in the 

 plural only) to indicate his second division of the Linnaean genus Alcedo, a section within which he embraced 

 A. (Ceyx) tridactyla, A. (Pelargopsis) leucocephala, A. (Calialcyon) coromanda, A. (Sauropatis) chhrocephala, 

 and A. (Entomobia) melanoptera. There is nothing contained in Dr. Horsfield's observations to indicate A. 

 coromanda as the type, or even as typical of, his Entomotherce. 



