ALCEDINID#. 
Alcedo euryxona nigricans Btyth,* 
Alceda nigricans Blyth, Journ, Asiat. Soc. Beng, xvi, 1847, p. 1180 : 
Malacca. 
Distr . — Malay Peninsula. 
Alcedo meninting 2 Horsf. Deep-Blue Kingfisher. 
Alcedo meninting meninting Horsf. 
Alcedo meninting Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1821, p. 172 * 
Java. 
Alcedo megarhynchus Hart., Vog. Mus. Seock, Gesell. tSgr, p, 134: 
as svn. of meninting. 
Distr . — Java; Bali. 
Alcedo meninting verrauxii De La Berge.3 
Alcedo Verreauxii De La Berge, Rev, Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 305, pi, 9 : 
Borneo. 
Distr.— Malay Peninsula. 
Sumatra; Rhio Archipelago; Banka; Billiton, 
Borneo. 
* Alcedo meninting sukviridis Oberh. 
Alcedo meninting submridts Oberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll. lx, 7, 
1912, p. 7: Nias Island, West Sumatra. 
Distr.— Banjak Islands and Nias Island, West Sumatra. 
* Alcedo meninting cal lima Oberh. 
Alcedo meninting callima Oberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll. lx, 7, 
1912* p, 7 : Tana Bala Island, Batu Islands, West Sumatra. 
Disir.—Batu Islands, West Sumatra. 
Alcedo meninting proxima Rich 111. 
Alcedo meninting proxima Richmond, Proc, Biol. Soc. Wash, xxv, 
1912, p, 104: North Pagi Island, West Sumatra. 
Distr. — Mentawi Islands (Sipora; North Pagi) West Sumatra, 
> Males from the Malay Peninsula seem to have the underpays more 
washed with rufous than those from Java and Borneo. 
a Revisions : Laub., Orn. Monatsber. xxiii, 1915, p. 167 ; Baker, Bull. 
B, 0. Cl. xxxix, igig, p, 36. 
3 A. m. scintitlans Baker is said to occur in Peninsular Siam, but a 
specimen from Junk Zeylon is certainly not scintitlans. Verr&uxii is rather 
smaller than typical meninting which, in the east of Java, is also rather less 
blue. 
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