1896. ] IN THE ANATOMY OF THE KINGFISHERS, 605 
In Haleyon rufa (fig. 1), H. sp., Ceryle alcyon (fig. 2), and 
C. americana there is only a single tendon, but it gives off a for- 
wardly running wristward slip. The main tendon, as in Alcedo, is 
continued over the muscles of the forearm to the ulnar side. In 
Ceryle (fig. 2) there is this ditference, that the main tendon is 
very wide and diffused. Sauropatis sordidus (somewhat unex- 
pectedly) agrees with Halcyon in its single tendons. 
Fig. 1. Fig. 3. 
Fig 1.—Halcyon rufa. Tendons of tensor patagii brevis. 
Fig. 2.—Ceryle aleyon. Tendons of tensor patagii brevis. 
Fig. 3.—Sauropatis alhicilla. Tendons of tensor patagii brevis. 
In Dacelo, Sauromarptis, Pelaryopsis, Sawropatis (fig. 3) (sanctus, 
albicilla, vagans, chloris), Cittura (sanghirensis, cyanotis), and 
Tanysiptera the tendons are more complicated. There are two 
separate tensor patagii brevis tendons which often converge, and 
very nearly if not quite meet at their insertion onto the forearm ; 
the anterior of these, which is alone continued onto the ulnar side 
of the arm, has a wristward slip. 
Syma agrees with these genera in having two parallel tendons, 
but differs from them in having no wristward slip. 
To another myological peculiarity of some Kingfishers attention 
was first called by Dr. R. O. Cunningham. He pointed out the 
existence in Ceryle stellata of a tendinous link uniting the two 
biventres cervicis muscles, and the absence of this link in Alcedo. 
I have examined the genera mentioned in the table at the end of 
this paper (p. 606), with the exception of Syma and Tanysiptera 
(upon which I have a note by Prof. Garrod), and find that there 
are quite as many genera which have this tendinous link as there 
