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from Borneo, differing from C. dillwynni, its scapulars being rufous tinged 
with lilac, and from C. innominata (td supra), its upper wing-coverts being 
mostly black and the lesser outwardly edged with blue. It is C. tridactyla, 
Reichenb. (Ilandb. Akcdin. p. 8, fig. 3388), nec Ball. ‘ [Cf. P.Z.S. 18G9, 
p. 611 j Ibis, 1870, pp. 183, 184.] 
Alcedo oleyon, its nidification. C. E. Williams, Am. Nat. ii. pp. 014,016 ; 
0. M. Jones, op. cit. iii. p. 48 ; R. Ridgway, tom. cit. pp. 63, 64. A winter 
resident in Minnesota. II. Davis, tom. cit. p. 389. 
Alcedo cliclicidi receives the new specific name of tschelicutcmis ! M. T. v. 
IJeuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afr. i. p. 192. 
Dacelo occidcntnlis is a new species from Noith-wcstcrn Australia, allied 
to D. cervina, but differing in its much stouter bill, paler colours, and espe- 
cially by the outer web of the outer rectaries being plainly barred with white, 
J. Gould, P. Z. S. 1809, p. 002. 
Ceryle sliarpii is a new species from the Gaboon, allied to C. maxima, but 
somewhat smaller, and having the crest almost, and the back entirely, un- 
spotted ; the abdomen and lower tail-coverts are slatj'^-black profusely banded 
with white, and the under wing-coverts witli black bars. Id. Ann. & Mag. 
N. II. 4th ser. iv. p. 271. 
Sharpe, R. B. On a new Kingfislier belonging to tlie genus 
Tanysiptera. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 630, 631. 
This also contains a diagnostic table of the species of the genus, of which 
eleven are recognized. The new one is 
T. dlioti, from an unknown locality, having no white dorsal spot, but 
a white rump and a non-spatulate tail. The type belongs to the Counts 
Turati. 
CaPITONIDA3. 
Poyoniorhynchus rolleti, P. leucocephalus, and P. diadematus, their heads 
figured. M. T. v. Ileuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afr. t. xxvii. 
Barhatida uropyyialis is figured. Id. t. xxviii. 
Buccanodon anchietce is described and figured as a new species from Ca- 
conda (W. Africa). J. V. Barboza du Bocage, P. Z. S. 1809, pp. 430, 437, 
pi. xxix. 
Bucerotidas. 
Bartlett, A. D. Remarks on the Habits of the Hornbills 
[Buceros). Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 142-146. 
An example of B. corruyatus being observed to throw up a singular casting, 
this on examination proved to consist of a mass of the bird’s food enveloped 
in a casing which the author regards as the natural secretion of the animal, 
and is the means by which the male feeds the female while she is plastered 
up in her nest. Some remarks on the castings and secretions of other birds 
are added. 
Flower, AV. H. Note on a Substance ejected from the Stomach 
of a Hornbill [Buceros coy'riigatus)^ Tom. cit. p. 150. 
The sack containing the casting above mentioned consists of the entire 
epithelial lining of the bird’s gizzard. [ Vide suprei, “ Anatomy, &c., 
Tobias, L.”] 
Buceros, the curious habits during incubation of birds of this genus fir "^ 
