NOTES ON SOME BIRDS FROM THE 
tail-covers are deep black. Crown metallic greenish-blue, a minute 
purple spot behind each supercilium ; ear-covers, nape, back, lesser 
and middle coyers, scapulars, rump and upper tail-covers, metallic 
green, with a golden gloss on the upper back and ear-covers. Rest 
of wings and tail black, with a faint purplish gloss. Total length, 
5.6; beak to front, i.3; wing, 3; medial rectrices, 2; external, 1.9. 
I can find no reference to the “ Cinnyris sanguineus, Less.,” 
quoted by Verreaux, so I conclude that it is a MS. name. 
*18. Nectarinia johanne (Verreaux). The 6 will be figured in the 
Proc. Zool. Soc. The 2 is dark olive brown aboye, very pale yellow 
on throat and deeper yellow on. breast, belly, and lower tail-covers ; 
the whole lower parts with a brown streak down the middle of each 
feather. 
19, Alcedo leucogaster, Fraser. 
*20. Alcedo quadribrachys, Bonap., Consp. Gen. Av. p. 158. 
Plate xxix. This beautiful Kingfisher presents a remarkable si- 
milarity to the well known Aleyone azwrea of Australia, from which 
however it is at once distinguished, by having four toes, a character 
which places it in Alcedo, The whole upper parts, cheeks and sides 
of neck, are deep Prussian blue, barred with black on the crown; 
the lores, patch behind the ears and throat, are pale fulvous, lower 
parts deep ferruginous. Remiges blackish; rectrices black with a 
tinge of blue; beak black ; legs red. 
A young specimen differs in haying a blue tinge spread over the 
breast. ; 
Length, 6.5; beak to front, i.7; wing, 3.1; tail, 1.5; tarsus, 3. 
T have had a specimen of this bird in my collection since 1838, 
but from not knowing its locality, I have been unable to identify 
either its name or habitat till now. r 
21. Haleyon cancrophaga (Lath.)? This bird was so named in 
a list sent me by Mr. Wilson, but Verreaux’s label has been lost. 
It seems however to be different from H. cancrophaga as described 
by Latham after Buffon. 
Head, cheeks, upper back, scapulars, and lesser and middle wing- 
covers, deep chesnut; greater covers blackish. Lower back and 
upper tail-covers, azure; primaries black; secondaries azure, exter- 
nally tipped black ; tail deep blue, tipped black; chin and lower 
parts white; beak red; legs reddish. 
Length, 7.5; beak to front, i.1; wing, 3.7; tail, i.5. 
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