no. 2090. REVIEW OF ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA— OBERHOLSER. 643 

 ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA COROMANDA (Latham). 



[Alcedo] coromanda Latham, Index Ornith., vol. 1, 1790, p. 252 ("Coromandela" 

 [India]) (based on Le Martin Picheur violet de la cdte de Coromandel, Sonnerat, 

 Voyage Indes Orient., vol. 2, 1782, p. 212, pi. 118). 



Halc[yon\. Coromandelicus Vigors, in Raffles' Mem. Life and Pub. Serv. Raffles, 

 1830, p. 654 (nom. emend, pro Alcedo coromanda Latham). 



[Halcyon] lilacina Swainson, Classif. Birds, vol. 2, 1837, p. 335 (intended to be 

 based on the same plate of Sonnerat's as is Alcedo coromanda Latham, but mis- 

 quoted as "pi. 218"). 



A[lcyon\. calipyga Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., No. 3, June, 1844, p. 82 

 [Nepal] (nomen nudum). 



Halcyon coromandra Gray, Cat. Spec, and Draw. Mamm. and Birds Nepal and 

 Thibet Pres. Hodgson Brit. Mus., 1846, p. 56 (nom. emend, pro Alcedo coro- 

 manda Latham) (Nepal). 



H[alcyon\. coromandeliana ("Scopoli" 1 ) Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. 1, August, 1846, 

 p. 79 (based on Sonnerat, Voyage Indes Orient., vol. 2, 1782, pi. 118; Alcedo 

 coromanda Gmelin; and Halcyon lilacina Swainson). 



H[alcyon\. commander Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. Asiatic Soc, 1849, p. 47 (nom. 

 emend, pro Alcedo coromanda Latham) (Tenasserim). 



H[alcyon]. callipyga Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 17, 1892, p. 219 (nom. 

 emend, pro Alcyon calipyga Hodgson). 



Chars subsp. — Size medium; coloration pale, both above and below; 

 forehead and breast with but a slight wash of magenta or with none. 



Description. — Adult male, No. 153798, U.S.N.M.; Tyching, Trong, 

 Lower Siam, April 24, 1896; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Upper surface, 

 including sides of head and neck, cinnamon rufous, rather darker on 

 wings and tail; everywhere, except on forehead, cheeks, lores, and 

 orbital region, more or less suffused with magenta, most conspicu- 

 ously on back, scapulars, nape, and wing-coverts; a long, broad 

 stripe on the middle of the rump and lower back, silvery bluish white ; 

 lower parts, including lining of wings, tawny ochraceous, deepening 

 into tawny on the sides of the breast, paling to very light ochraceous 

 buff on the chin, and to ochraceous buff on the middle of abdomen ; 

 " orbital ring orange; bill red; feet red; claws orange yellow." 



Measurements. — Male: Total length 2 (in flesh), 247.6 mm. 



Probable male 3 : Wing, 111.5-119 (average, 116.5) mm.; tail, 63-67 

 (65.1); exposed culmen, 50-53 (51.7); tarsus, 14.5-17 (16.2); middle 

 toe, 17.5-19 (18.5). 



Probable female: 4 Wing, 110.5 mm.; tail, 66; exposed culmen, 50; 

 tarsus, 16; middle toe, 18.3. 



Type-locality. — Rangoon, Pegu. 5 



i An erroneous supposition that Alcedo caromandeliana Scopoli (Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr., part 2, 1786, 

 p. 89) is the same as Alcedo coromanda Latham; whereas its description does not fit at all, being that of some 

 species of Merops, probably Mcrops viridis Linnaeus, though Scopoli quotes Sonnerat's Voyage Indes 

 Orient., p. 212, pi. 118. 



2 One specimen. 



3 Six specimons, from southern China, northern India, and the Malay Peninsula. 

 * One specimen, from the Malay Peninsula. 



6 Here for the first time definitely fixed. 



