580 AVES. 



Genus Alcedo, Linn. 

 21. Alcedo bengalensis, Gmelin. 



Alcedo hengalensis, Gm.^ Syst. Nat.;, t. ij p. 450, 1788; Bljtli, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, 



p. 49, 1849 j Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 231, 1862 ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced., pi. ii, 1870. 

 Alcedo minor, Schl., Mus. Pays-Bas. Alced., p. 7, 1863. 

 Alcedo ispida minoi', Heugl., Orn. n. o. Afr., p. 178, 1869. 

 Alcedo hengalensis, var. sondaica, Beich., Handb. Alced., p. 3, 1851. 

 Alcedo sondaica, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein., th. ii, p. 3, 1851. 

 Alcedo japonica, Bonap. Consp., vol. Anis., p. 10, 1854. 

 Alcedo moluccensis, Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 484 (nee Blyth). 



a. Mandalay, 26tli September 1868. 



h, Bbamo, 6th February 1868. 



c. Muangla, Sanda Valley, 18th May 1868. 



These two Burmese specimens seem to me to agree with Indian examples, hut 

 the one from Yunnan is rather different, having the ear-coverts and under surface 

 rather pale rufous, the hlue of the hack very bright, and the blue spots on the 

 wing-coverts very slightly developed. 



This Kingfisher is not uncommon in Upper Burma, and I traced it along the 

 Tapeng river to Sanda. 



Genus Cehyle, Boie. 

 22. Ceeyle htjdis, Linn. 



Martin-pecheiir noir et hlanc de Senegal, Buff., PI. Enl. 62. 



Martin-pecJieuT huppe du Cap de Bon Esperance, Buff,, PI. Enl. 716. 



Alcedo rudis, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 181, 1766. 



Cervle rudis, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316 ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced., pi. xix, 1871. 



Ispida rudis, Jerdon, Madr. Journ., 1840, p. 232. 



Ceryle varia, Strickl., Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. vi, p. 418, 1841. 



Ispida hitorquata, Swainson, Classif. of B., p. 336, 1837. 



Ispida hicincta, Swainson, B. of W. Afr., vol. ii, p. 95, 1837. 



Ceryle hicincta, Beich., Handb. Alced., p. 20, ccccviii, fig. 3098, 1851. 



Ceryle leucomelaneura, Beich., Handb. Alced., p. 21, t. cccix, fig. 3488, 1851, 



a. Bhamo, 6th February 1868.' 

 h. t Tapeng River, 2nd February ] 875. 



The male bird above mentioned has the whole of the throat and fore-neck 

 thickly blotched with black, with which colour all the feathers are broadly tipped 

 to an unusual degree, although markings on the throat are not uncommon, even in 

 very adult birds, as the present example undoubtedly is. 



