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green; inner webs brown, becoming pale on the edges. Bill, legs, 

 and feet dark slate colour. Iris reddish brown. 



Hab : Haiti. 



? ad. Diflfers from tlie male in wanting the red band on the 

 head. Length. 5,25; wing 2,75; tail 1,75; tarsus 0,56; bill 0,62. 



49. Vi via chinensis, 



E. Hargitt, Ibis 1881 April p. 228 pl. VII. 



$. Above, including the rump and upper tail-eoverts, uniform 

 yellowish olive; wiug-coverts from olive-brown in the lesser series 

 to yellowish olive in the greater; quills dusky brown, edged exter- 

 nally with yellowish olive, the inner webs margined with greyish 

 white ; the apieal half of the outer webs of a few of the outermost 

 primaries greyish brown; edge of the wing and the basal three 

 fourths of the outer web of the bastard primary white; shafts of 

 the quills black; tail black, the inner webs of the central pair of 

 feathers white, the dwarf feather having a large portion of the 

 outer web white; the two penultimate have the apieal portion of 

 the out er webs, and the extreme tip of the inner webs white, the 

 outer margined with blackish at the tip; the fourth outer feather 

 has the margin of the outer web whitish at the tip; the one next 

 to the central pair is entirely black; shafts of the central pair 

 white, of the remainder black; but where the webs are white, so 

 is that part of the shaft; the crown light brownish rufous; the 

 feathers of the forehead are crossed with a dark, blackish bar 

 and tipped with orange; but the latter is not very distinct; lores, 

 a stripe over and under the eye and down the neck, white; ear- 

 coverts and sides of the neck, between the white stripes, chestnut, 

 darker than the crown; moustachial stripe black, with a mixture 

 of brown and white upon the upper webs and tips of the feathers ; 

 chin and throat white with a yellow tinge; breast and entire under 

 surface of the body white with a tinge of yellow; the breast and 

 abdomen covered with large spots of black, the flanks barred with 

 the same; under tail-coverts yellowish white, the feathers having 

 at their tips a spot of black upon each web , but they appear as 

 if barred; under surface of the tail repeating the upper; under 

 wing-coverts sooty black; edge of the wing, to the carpal Joint, 

 yellowish white; axillaries a mixture of dusky and white; under 

 surface of the wing dusky, the marg-in of the basal half of the 

 inner webs whitish; shafts white at the base, light dusky brown 

 towards the tip ; some of the shafts of the outermost primaries are 

 white at the extreme base, the remaining part being light yellowish 

 grey or brown. Eyes brown black; bill plumbeous; feet plumbeous. 

 Tot. length 4,5 inches; culm. 0,5; wing 2,3; tail 1,35; tars. 0,5. 

 Hab.: May-chee, China. 



Fam. ALCEDINWAE. 

 50. Ceyx sacerdotis. 



E. P. Ramsay, Journ. Linn. Soc. London Zoology Vol. 1-6 

 No. 90 Jan. 1882 p. 128. 



