580 AVES. 



Genus Alcedo, Linn. 

 21. Alcedo bengalensis, Gmelin. 



Alcedo hengalensis, Qm., Syst. Nat.^ t. i, p. 450, 1788; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, 



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

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

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

 Alcedo hengalensis, var. sondaica, Reich., 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 Blytb). 



a. Mandalay, 26tli September 1868. 



b. Bbamo, 6th February 1868. 



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



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

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

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

 wing-coverts very shghtly developed. 



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

 Tapeng river to Sanda. 



Genus Certlb, Boie. 

 22. Cektlb rudis, Linn. 



Martin-pScIieur noir et blanc de Senegal, BufE., PL Enl. 62. 



Marlin-peclieur Jmppe dii Cap de Bon Esperance, BufE., PL Enl. 716. 



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



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



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



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



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



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



Ceri/le bicincta, Eeich., Handb. Alced., p. 20, ccccviii, fig. 3098, 1851. 



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



a. Bhamo, 6th February 1868.' 

 I. i Tapeng River, 2nd February 1 875. 



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. 



