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the beak is black with a yellowish tip, and the legs 

 pale orange. 



This species also is insectivorous. It was not very, 

 unfrequent in the Anseba valley, keeping to the thickets, 

 and often sitting in the densest bushes. It was not seen 

 elsewhere. 



A young bird, which had apparently only just left the 

 nest, was shot on July 30th. A few days later, ia the 

 evening, a pair of adult birds were, observed keeping 

 about one spot, as if they had a nest there. The nest, 

 however, could not be found. The spot was in rather 

 thick bushes near a small ravine. 



64. Corythornis cyanostigma (Eijpp.), 



Alcedo cyanostigma, Biipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 70, fig. 24, f. 2, et Syst. 



Uebers. No. 92.— Ferr. et Gal. No. 170, 

 0. cristata, Sharpe, Alcedmidse, part vi. — Heugl. Orn. N. 0. Afr. 



Nos. 140 and 142. 



Iris brown, legs and, bill coral-red. Only seen on the 

 highlands, but not much above 7,000 feet. It was most 

 common near Agula and Dongolo, but was nowhere 

 abundant. 



The habits of this bird are entirely different from 

 those of the previous species. It is a fish-eater, and was 

 never seen away from the streams, on the banks of which 

 it might be observed resting on a branch over the water, 

 and thence dashing down upon fish, or skimming rapidly 

 up or down the stream precisely like Alcedo ispida. 



A. cyanostigma of Rllppell was founded on a young 

 specimen. The adult has always been looked upon as the 

 true A. cristata, L., and the two have been separated by 



