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Range of the Species. 



1. S. torotoro. Only found as yet in New Guinea, the Aru Islands, Waigiou, and 

 Mysol. 



2. S. flavirostris. Represents the foregoing in Australia, where it is confined to the 

 Cape- York Peninsula. 



Genus 11. Halcyon. 

 Range of the Genus. 



Over the whole of the Ethiopian, Indian, and Australian Regions, and extending within 

 the limits of the Palsearctic Region by reason of the occurrence of a species in Japan and 

 another in South-eastern Europe. 



Range of the Species. 



1. H. coromanda. This species has two or three subspecies, which differ from the typical 

 form in size and in intensity of coloration. The Ruddy Kingfishers in their different allied 

 forms range over the whole of the Indo-Malayan subregion, and occur in Japan and Celebes. 

 The Kingfisher of Japan has been named H. schlegeli by Bonaparte, and is a little larger 

 than typical*//, coromanda. Again, the form found in Celebes is still a little larger than 

 the Japanese subspecies, and is much brighter in colour. The three subspecies seem, how- 

 ever, to run one into the other, so that I have not treated them as distinct species. 



2. H. bad/a. This is a small species of the chestnut-coloured group of Halcyon, to which 

 belong also the two succeeding species. It is confined to the west Coast of Africa, being 

 found as far north as Sierra Leone, southwards to the Gaboon. Since the species was 

 described in my Monograph, I have received it from Governor Ussher in Fantee. 



3. //. smyrnensis. Widely distributed, and ranging throughout the Indian Region, not 

 extending, however, beyond the Malayan Peninsula. Occurs also on the Red Sea and in 

 Syria and Palestine, even to Asia Minor. 



4. 7/. gularis. The representative of the foregoing species in the Philippines, where, it 

 seems, smyrnensis also occurs. 



5. II. cyanoventris. Confined to the island of Java. 



6. II. pileata. Spread over but confined to the entire Indian Region. 



7. II. erythrogastra. Confined to the Cape- Verde Islands, where it represents the next 

 species. 



8. H. semiccerulea. Found all over the northern part of the Ethiopian Region, and south- 

 wards along the western coast to Ovampoland. Some ornithologists, like M. Jules Verreaux, 

 whose experience carries great weight, maintain that this species and the foregoing are not 

 separable, as, however different West-African specimens may be from those of the Cape- 

 Verde Islands, Abyssinian ones are intermediate ; so that perhaps I was wrong in separating 

 the two forms. Certain it is that the colouring of the plate of //. erythrogastra makes it 

 impossible to appreciate the difference in the species ; for the Dutch colourists have made 

 the shading of the head so sharp and of such a dark colour, as to give the bird the appear- 



