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HALCYONID^. 



-Sp. 8. Ha. chlorocephalus.— Alcedo chlorocephala.-^^S^atc, v. viii. 



p. 77. — Africa and Asia. 

 Sp. 9. Ha. Coromandus. — Alcedo Cororaanda. Shaxu, v. viii. 



P^7d. — Coromandel: Java. 

 Sp, 10. Ha. leucocephalus. — Alcedo Javanica. Shaw, v. viii. p. 

 67. — Java. 



Sp. 1 1 . Ha. Senegalensis. — Alcedo Senegalensis. Shaw, v. viii. 



p. 72.pl, 9.— Africa. 

 Sp. 12. Ha. Cancrophagus. — Alcedo Cancrophaga. Shatv, v. vui. 



p. 71. pi. 8. — Senegal. 

 Sp. 13. Ha. melanopterus. 



Ha. dor so, uropygio, xientreque cyaneis; capite, scapulisque nigris; 

 remigibus thalassinis ; apice et subtus fuscis interne latissime 

 albo Jasciatis. 



Crab-eater with the back, rump, and belly cyaneous ; the head 

 and scapulars black; the quills sea-green, with the tip and 

 under part broadly barred with white within. 



Alcedo melanoptera. Linn. Trans. {Horsf.) v. xiii. p. 174.—- 

 Alcedo omnicolor. Temm. PL Col. 135. 



Inhabits Java. Length ten inches : the throat 

 and collar on the neck smoky-chesnut : the tail sea- 

 green, beneath brownish. Called Tengke-urang by 

 the Javanese. 



GENUS LI.— DACELO, Leach. 



Rostrum mediocre, crassum, 

 tetragono-conicum, fauce 

 ad oculos hiante; mandi- 

 hula superior longior, api- 

 cem versus utrinque late 

 emarginata. 



Nares oblongae. 



BeaJc moderate, thick, four- 

 sided-conic ; the mouthy 

 gaping to the eyes ; the 

 upper mandible longest, 

 towards its point on each 

 side broadly notched. 



Nostrils oblong. 



