﻿CLASSIFICATION. xiii 

 Genus 7. Cetcopsis. 



Type. 



Ceycopsis, Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, 1869, p. 447 C. fallax. 



Species unica. 



Ceycopsis fallax (Schl. Ned. Tijdschr. 1866, p. 387). 

 4 Genus 8. Myioceyx. 



Myioceyx, Sharpe, antea, p. xi M. ruficeps. 



Clavis specierum. 



a. Capite rufo, fronte nigra 1. ruficeps. 



b. Capite nigro, cyaneo faseiato 2. lecontii. 



Genus 9. Ispidina. 



Type. 



Ispidina, Kaup, Fam. Eisv. p. 11 (1848) I. picta. 



Clavis specierum. 



a. Dorso laete ultramarino. 

 a'. Abdomine rufo. 



a". Macula auriculari nulla 1. picta. 



b". Macula auriculari cyanea 2. natalensis. 



b'. Abdomine albo 3. leucogastra. 



b. Dorso lilacino 4. madagascariensis. 



Genus 10. Syma. 



Type. 



Syma, Less. Voy. Coq. i. p. 688 (1828) S. to'rotoro. 



The genus Syma is closely allied to Halcyon, from which it differs in its serrated bill. 

 In plumage it closely assimilates to the cinnamon-coloured group of the genus Halcyon. 



Clavis specierum. 



a. Rostro aurantiaco 1. torotoro. 



b. Rostro flavo, versus apicem nigro 2. flavirostris. 



Genus 11. Halcyon. 



The genus Halcyon has been divided by systematic ornithologists into many genera, a 

 careful examination of which convinces me that these differences are merely those of style of 

 plumage, and not those of form. The following table will indicate the manner in which 

 these genera have been founded : — 



Type. 



Halcyon, Swains. Zool. Illustr. i. text to pi. 27 (1820) H. senegalensis. 



Entomuthera, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 173, note (1820) . . . //. coromanda. 



