﻿Some Ornithologists have considered their present species to be only a variety of 

 Halcyon gurial, an identification manifestly untenable, for besides the entire difference in 

 coloration, both Mr. Blyth and Dr. Jerdon state that the notes of the two species are 

 entirely different. 



I am indebted to Dr. H. B. Tristram for the loan of the specimen from which the 

 description and figure in the present work are taken. 



