ALCEDO BIRU. 



Ord. IV^^ Les Passereaux, Cuvier. 2^ Division, Les Syndactyles. 



Ord. VII?^ Alciones, Temminck. 



Ord. II. Pic^, Sect. III. Pedibus gressoriis, Linn. Syst. 



Ord. II. Ambulatores, Illiger. Fam. 6. Angulirostres. 



ALCEDO, Linn. Lath. Cuv. Temm. Illiger, 8^c. 



Char. Gen. — Rostrum capite longius, rectum, porrectum, validum, tetragono- 

 compressum, acuminatum, acutum, culmine subdistincto, dorsato, recto, gonyde, 

 ascendente, mandibulis subsequalibus. Tomia subtilissime incisulo-fimbriata. 

 Vibrissce nuUae. 



Nares in basi maxillEe prope culmen sitse, superne tectte, inferne rima longitudinali 

 patentes. Lingua brevis, carnosa, plana, fere sagittata. 



Pedes breves, congrui, gressorii, tibia inferius denudata. Tarsus digiti medii 

 dimidium tantum gequans. Digiti antici externi subsequales, coadunati apice 

 discreti, internus dimidio brevier, interdum nuUus. Unguis medius acie 

 interna dUatata. Acrotarsia obsolete, ax:rodactyla apertius scutulata. (Illiger.) 



* Rostro gracili, culmine car inato, 



Alcedo subazurea nitore thalassino, remigibus interne caudaque subtus fuscis, 

 gula jugulo abdomine macula coUi laterali alisque subtus albis. 



Meninting-watu seu Burung-Biru, of the Javanese. 



Alcedo Biru, Horsf. Sijsf. Arrangement of Bird^ from Java, Linn. Trans. Vol. 

 XIII. ^.175. 



In the Systematic Catalogue of Birds from Java, which was printed in the 

 Xlllth Volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, the views of M. Tem- 

 minck regarding Alcedo were adopted. When the Catalogue was prepared, the 

 examination of the various species from that Island, suggested clearly a division of 



