Mr. E. L. Layard on two Species of Halcyon. 459 
and buff on the outer, very feeble towards the tips, which 
are mottled on both webs with brown and chestnut; the 
tail brown, thickly mottled, and faintly barred with chestnut ; 
lores and sides of face very light chestnut, the feathers deli- 
cately fringed with brown; basal plumes black-tipped; ear- 
tufts rudimentary, and scarcely to be detected ; under surface 
of the body light chestnut, richly mottled and irregularly 
barred with white, and arrow-shaped black streaks down the 
centres of the feathers; under tail-coverts buffy white, with 
a pale rufous bar near the end, and white tip; the under 
wing-coverts pale buff; the underside of the primaries dark 
_brown, and the inner webs of the secondaries light buif ; 
feathering of the legs short and close, of rich rufous chest- 
nut and faint blackish bars and spots; tarsi very strong, and 
entirely bare, excepting a very narrow line of plumage for a 
quarter of an inch from the joint in front; the whole of the 
back part of the joint to the end of the tibia entirely bare; 
tarsi and feet clear amber-colour, and very strong and stout ; 
claws brown at the base, black at the tip; bill horn-colour, 
with the tip of the upper mandible dark brown. Total length 
9:75 inches, wing 6°8, tail 3-2, tarsus 1:4, middle toe with 
claw 1°45. 
Mahé, Seychelles Islands, April 1880. 
XLV.—Remarks on two Species of Halcyon. 
By E. L. Layarp. 
(Plate XV.) 
Haucyon sutia, Reich., from Ansevata, in New Caledonia. 
There must be some errorhere! It must be a young example 
of H. sancta. Our bird never has the inside of the wing 
white; in H. julie and H. chloris it is always so in the 
adults, and more or less so in the young. We have splendid 
specimens of H. julie exactly according with Mr. Sharpe’s 
plate and descriptions, from Aneiteum, Tanna, Vate, and St. 
Bartholomew, New Hebrides—also H. chloris from Vate 
or Sandwich Island, which we believe is a new habitat; at 
least we have no record of the species being found so far 
