178 BIRDS OF THE 
A female from Pontianak, N° 1517 (Moret) and another 
from a plantation at Poetoes Sibau (N° 2). — Iris red, 
bill black, feet gray. The first specimen differs from the 
typical habitus in having the feathers on head, hind neck, 
mantle, lesser wing-coverts and breast broadly bordered 
with blue, and in having the throat but faintly shaded 
with chestnut. The plumage in this specimen is rather 
worn off and the centre tail-feathers are newly moulted. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and the whole 
Malay Archipelago. 
64. Nyctiornis amigta. 
Merops amictas Temm. Pl. Col. IV, pl. 310 (1824). 
Nyctiornis amicta Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 91; Everett, L. B. Born. 
p- 164; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 18. 
Numerous specimens from Mounts Kenepai and Liang 
Koeboeng, and seven specimens from Long Bloe (Upper 
Mahakkam). — Iris orange-red, bill black, base of lower 
- mandible white, feet green. — Contents of stomach: wild bees.. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 
Alcedinidae. 
65. Adcedo bengalensis. 
Alcedo bengalensis Gm. S. N. I, p. 450 (1788); Salvad. Uce. Born. 
p. 92; Everett, L. B. Born. p. 158; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 18. 
Alcedo ispida (part.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. XVII, p. 141. 
A small series from Pontianak, Sanggau and Smitau. — 
Iris black, bill in the male entirely black, in the female 
black, lower mandible red; feet red. 
Hab. South-eastern Asia, Japan, Malay Archipelago. 
66. Alcedo meninting. 
Alcedo meninting Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 172 (1822); Salvad. 
Uce. Born. p. 93; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 18. 
where this specific name is based upon Brisson’s Apiaster phélippinus major 
(see also Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. VIII, p. 42). 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXI. 
