HALCYON. 579 



In the account of the Hoopoes given in the 'Birds of Europe' the length of 

 hill in Indian examples of Z7. nigripennis is said to vary from 2'0 inches to 2"35, 

 while, in Burmese examples, the hill varies from 2'0 to 2'5 inches, vrhich agrees 

 with the measurements of my five specimens. Mr. Hume, in some remarks 

 on this species, ohserves that whereas a Pegu bird had a bUl measuring 

 2"6 inches, he had never known an Indian bird to have one exceeding 2'1 inches. 

 Independently, however, of the birds mentioned in the article on Hoopoes in the 

 Birds of Europe, there is a bird in the British Museum measuring 2" 2 inches in 

 the bill. Although the majority of the Burmese specimens may have a longer 

 bill than others from India, there are some which do not exceed the latter, 

 and therefore I cannot see any grounds for separating U. longirostris as a distinct 

 species. 



Family— //Z CEDINIDJE. 



Genus Halcyon, Swainson. 

 20. Halcyon smyrnensis, Linn. 



Martin-pecheur de la cote de Malabar, Buff., PL Enl., p. 894. 



Alcedo smyrnensis, Linn., Syst. Nat,, t. i, p. 181, 1766; Mc'Clell., Proe. Zool. Soc, 1839, 

 p. 156. 



Alcedo fusca, Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl., p. 54 (1783, ex Buff.); Martens, Joum. £. Orn., 1866, 

 p. 18. 



Halcyon smyrnensis, Steph., Gen. Zoo]., vol. xiii, p. 99, 1826; Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1831, p. 84; 

 Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 79, 1846; id., Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus., p. 55, 1848; Blyth, Cat. B. 

 Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 47, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 155, 1850 ; Cass., Cat. Halcyon, 

 Philad. Mus., p. 6,1852; Moore, Proc Zool. Soc, 1854, p. 268 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 

 Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 125, 1856-58 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 348; Tristr., t. c, p. 86 ; Sharpe, 

 Monogr. Alced., pi. lix, 1870; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 168; Adam., i.e., p. 372 ; 

 Ball, op. cit., 1874, p. 387; Hume, t. c, p. 470; id.. Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 105, 1875; 

 Dresser, B. Eur., pt. xlii, 1875; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 51 ; Armstrong, op. cit., 1876, 

 p. 306; Hume, t. c, p. 383; op. cit., 1877, p. 19; t. c. Gates, p. 143; Fairbank, op. cit., 

 1876, p. 394. 



Bacelo smyrnensis, Less., Traite d^Orn., p. 246, 1831. 



Halcyon fnsca, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 79, 1846; id., Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus., p. 55, 1848 ; Bonap. 

 Consp., t. i, p. 155, 1850 ; Cass., Cat. Halcyon, Philad. Mus., p. 6, 1852; Horsf. & Moore, 

 Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 125, 1856-58; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 224, 1862; Pelz., 

 Reise Novara, Vogel., p. 49, 1865 ; Stohczka, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxviii, 1868, p. 19 ; 

 Walden, Ibis, 1871, p. 165 ; Jerdon, op. cit., 1872, p. 4. 



Entotnothera smyrnensis, Reich., Handb. Alced., p. 13, 1851. 



Entomothera ftisca, Reich., I. c, p. 12, t. ccccix, figs. 3088-89, 1851. 



Entomobia smyrnensis. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein., th. ii, p. 155, note, 1860. 



Entomohia fusca, id., I. c, p. 155, 1860. 



JJacelo fusca, Schl., Mus. P.-B. Alcedines, p. 28, 1863; Heugl., Orn. n. o. Afr., 188, 1869. 



a. Mengoon, 14th January 1868. 

 h. c. d. Bliamo, February lb6S. 



Prevalent in Upper Burma. 



