350 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Zosterops chloris, Mull. (Banda White-eye). 



Zosterops chloris, Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium, i. p. 398 

 (1850), ex S. Miill. MSS. in Mus. Lugd. 

 Banda Island, Buru.* 

 Food. — Insects. 



Pitta vigorsi, Gld. (Vigors' Pitta). 



Pitta vigorsii, Gould, ' The Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. pi. 2 

 (1848). 



Dammer (Damar), Banda Islands, Timor Laut. 



The geographical distribution of this bird is involved in some 

 obscurity. Gould separated the species from P. brachyura as the 

 result of his examination of a specimen in the collection of the 

 Linnean Society, which, he believed, might have been obtained 

 on an island off the north coast of Australia, and adds that the 

 species was said to inhabit Lombok.t Von Rosenberg indicates 

 Sumbawa and Australia as habitats. \ Schlegel states that the 

 only specimen in Holland was presented to the Royal Museum of 

 Natural History by Prof, de Vries, and that it was not known 

 from what island it was obtained. § 



Halcyon chloris, Bodd. (White- collared Kingfisher). 

 Alcedo chloris, Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl. d'Aubent, p. 49 (1783). 



Abyssinia, India, Burma, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, 

 Cochin China, Sumatra, Banca, Billiton, Java, Borneo, Labuan, 

 Luzon, Panay, Marinduque, Guimares, Negros, Sebu, Bohol, 

 Leite, Dinagat, Mindanao, Kamiguin, Basilan Palawan. Timor : 

 Babar, Letti, Flores, Solor, Sumba, Sumbawa, Lombok. Celebes : 

 Sula Islands, Siao, Sangir. Ceram : Buru, Amboyna, Banda, 

 Goram, Timor Laut, Dawalur, Luang. Gilolo : Ternate, Bat- 

 chian, Obi, Mysol, Aru Islands, Gagie (Gag.), Pelew Islands, 

 Vate (New Hebrides). 



The dietary of this Kingfisher includes crabs, fish, andearth- 



* H. O. Forbes, op. cit. p. 410. 

 f ' Handbook to the Birds of Australia,' ii. p. 527. 



I ' Overzigtstabellen voor de Ornithologie van den Indischen Archipel.' 

 p. 3. 



§ ' De Vogels van Nederlandsch Indie, Het Geslacht Pitta,' p. 14. 



