bird 
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wing-coverts darkish blue, rather large, but not con- 
- spicuous. 
- Wing from 60 to 68 mm. ; average 63°5 (67 specimens). 
- Javan birds average rather larger we 8), though the 
extremes are about the same. 
- There are two Palawan specimens in the British Museum 
collection and two in Tring which are noticeably greener 
above, and two specimens in the former collection from 
the Celebes have no blue feathers at the base of the lower 
mandible, but perhaps further material is required before 
deciding on the status of the birds from either island. 
- Habitat. Java, Sumatra, Batu, Borneo, Palawan, Sulu Is., 
Celebes, Peleng, Bangka, Banggai. Billiton, Bali, Lombok, 
and Malay Peninsula north to Bankasoon. 
A. fan: callinla (Oberholser, Smith. Mise. Coll. lx. p. 7) 
(Batu) cannot be ae os from ty pical ene of 
which it becomes a py souya 
(2) Alcedo moliatine asiatica. 
Alcedo asiatica Swains., Zool. Illus. 1st series, i. pl. 1. 
(1821), “some part of India.” | 
? Alcedo beavant Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ree: XIV. 
p. 158+ (1874), Manbhum. 
Type-locality. Bengal. +. 
Biue of upper parts deep and very bright, but not quite. 
so pronounced as in A. m. meninting ; scapulars deep blue 
with innermost secondaries generally the same; spots on 
wing-coverts large, but very blue and very conspicuous. 
Larger : wing 69 to 72 mm.; bill 34 to 36, in one case 
42 mm. (6 specimens). 
Habitat. Bengal, Belgaum, Travancore, and Ceylon. 
It is the bird from Travancore which has the enormous bill 
of 42 mm., but otherwise it does not differ from the others. 
(3) Alcedo meninting scintillans, subsp. nov. 
Type-locality. Bankasoon. : 
Type, 3, No. 87.8.20.1698. Hume Coll., British Mus. ; 
coll. by W. Davison. © 
