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CONCLUDING EEMAEKS. 



also, I take to be a modification of Halcyon. With this genus we arrive at the end of the 

 long-tailed J)acelonina> ; for the remaining genera belonging to this subfamily are strictly 

 Alcedinine in form (that is to say, appear to be modelled on the same type as the true 

 Kingfishers), but yet by their habits belong to the insectivorous section of the family. 

 These genera are four in number— namely, Ceyx, Ceycopsis, Ispiclina, and Myioceyx. 



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They are all closely connected, inter se ; and the link towards Halcyon seems to be in the 

 lilac-backed section of the genus Ceyx with the lilac-backed section of the genus Halcyon, 

 where the tail is rather shorter than in most of the other members of the genus. Myioceyx 

 I consider to be a modification of Isjridina, the difference in form of bill showing a peculiar 

 adaptation to insect food. Unfortunately the two species of this genus are only represented 

 by three specimens in the whole of the Museums in the world, so that nothing is known of 

 their habits. 1 have already (antca, p. vii.) enlarged upon what I consider to be the links of 

 connexion between the subfamily Alcedinina' and Daccloninw, so that, as these conclusions 

 carry us directly from Ceyx and Ispidina direct to Alcyone and Corythomis, and thence to 

 Alee&O, we have only two genera left, namely Ceryle and Pelargopsis. These two stand 



