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senibling M, morpheus^ from Brazil, but larger and with a blacker head, P. 
B. Bclater and 0, Salvin, P, Z. 3. 1808, p. 327. 
Momotidas. 
Urospatha is a new genus, with the characters of Momotus or PnonUes of 
recent authors, but having ten rcotricea, the bill high, stout, and strongly ser- 
rated. The typo is 
Prionites martii, Spix (Ay. Bras. ii. p. G4, pi. 60). [Cf. Ibis, 1869, p. 222.] 
- Alcedinid^. 
Shaupe, B. B. a Monograph of the Alcedintdce or Kingfishers. London : 
1868. Parts i. and ii. Roy. 8yo. 
A work of considerable pretension, but one which entirely fulfils all the 
requirements of such a monograph at the present day. The bibliographical 
part is worked out with much more than common care, as also are the dia- 
gnoses, the descriptions, the particulars of geographical distribution, and, 
when it can be obtained, the account of the habits of the different species. 
The plates, eight in each part, are beautiful. 
Part i. contains accounts and figures of Caridonax fulgidus^ Carcineutes pul- 
chelbis, Halcyon pileata, II. dry as, Ceyx cajeli, C. wallacii (Yide infra), Ceryle 
alcyon, and C. superciliosa. Part ii. in like manner illustrates Oiitura sanyhi- 
rensis (vide infra), C. cyanotis, Ceyx lepida, C. solitaria, C. tridactyla *, C. me- 
lanura. Carcineutes melanops. and Ceryle cahanisi. f Cf. Ibis, 1868, pp. 472, 
473 ; 1869, pp. 216, 216.] 
. On two new or little-known Kingfishers belonging to the Genera 
Ceyx and Cittura. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 270-272, pi. xxvii. 
The first is Ceyx wallacii, from the Sula Islands, nearly allied to C. lepida, 
with which it has been confounded (Wallace, P, Z. S. 1862, p. 338), but 
differing from that species in the cobalt instead of ultramarine (or violet) 
tinge of the blue on the head, cheeks, and back, as well as in the wholly black 
scapulars and other minor distinctions. A list of the species of Ceyx known 
to the author, eight in number, is given (vide infra). 
The second is described and figured as a new species, Cittura sanghirensis, 
from the island of Sanghir, easily distinguished from C. cyanotis by its 
larger size, black forehead, deep blue on the wing-coverts, and the blue- 
black band on the side of the head. 
. On the Genus Ceyx. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 687-699. 
Ten species of the genus are herein dillorontiatcd, being two more than 
were enumerated by the author in the preceding paper: — C. dUlwyni, sp. n., 
and C. philippensis, Gould (vide infra). The confusion which has long ex- 
isted as to the true C. tridactyla (Pall.) and C. rujidorsa (Strickl.) is also 
attempted to be cleared up. The paper concludes with a synonymatic, de- 
scriptive, and geographical list of the species. 
Ceyx philippensis is a new species resembling C. cyanopectus, but with a 
shorter bill, richer colouring, the white patch on the side of the neck larger 
and purer, without the indigo-blue band, and witli the flanks rufous. J. 
Gould, P.Z. S. 1868, p. 404. 
* Corrected in part iii. (1860) to C. ru/idorsa. 
