OttNITHOLOGT OF KEW GUINEA. 811 



12. CsifTEOPUs MEjfEBEKi. — Nesoceutor menebeki (Less.) ; 

 Salvad. t. G. p. 17. 



a. Aleya, April 1876. Iris brighfc brick-red; bill black at tbe 

 base, lioru-coloured at the tip ; feet black. 



Fam. ALCEDiNiDiB. 



13 Alcyone pusilla. — A. pusilla, Gould-, Sharpe^ Monogr. 

 Alced. pi. xvi. 



a, (S . Aleya, S.E. New Gruinea, April 1875. Eyes dark bazel ; 

 bill black ; feet and tarsi lead-colour. 



An adult bird in full moult. Total length 4"5 inches, culmen 

 1, wing 2, tail 0-95, tarsus 0-3. 



14. Alcyone lessoni. — A. lessoni, Cass. ; Salvad. t. c. p. 19. 

 a, c?. Mainland of New Gruinea, eight miles from Yule Island, 



November 1875. 



This specimen agrees very well indeed with other Papuan skins 

 of A. lessoni, resembling them in the large size of the bill and also 

 in the purple shade on the flanks. In the specimen obtained by 

 Mr. Stone the blue was confined to the sides of the breast. 



15. Halcyon sanctus. — Sauropatis sancta {V.Sfll.); Salvad. 

 Sf D' Albert, t. e. p. 814 ; Salvad. t. c. p. 19. 



a, 2 ■ Yule Island, April 1870. 



16. Tanysipteea miceoehyncha, sp. n. — Tanysiptera galatea, 

 Qrai/ (var. minor), Salvad. Sf D' Albert, t. c. p. 815; Salvad. t. c. 

 p. 21. 



$ ad. Similis T. galatece, sed multo minor, dorso nigro, minus 

 caeruleo lavato, rostro parvo praecipue distinguendus. Long. tot. 

 15"3, culm. 13, alse 4'05, caudse 10'2, tarsi 0'6. 



Adult female. Crown of head and nape cobalt-blue, a little 

 brighter round the edge of the crown and on the nape, and slightly 

 dashed with silvery cobalt over the eye, the forehead rather duller 

 blue ; lores, feathers below the eye, and the ear-coverts black, 

 slightly washed with deep blue, as also are the sides of neck, mantle, 

 back, and scapulars, on which, however, the blue shade is not so 

 apparent ; wings black, the wing-coverts and secondaries exter- 

 nally deep purplish blue, the innermost of the greater and median 

 coverts bright cobalt, forming a shoulder-patch ; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts pure white, the latter with an indistinct 

 narrow fringe of dark blue ; tail white, the outer feathers more 



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