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Birds of Celebes: Alcedinidae. 
southern ones (Seebohm 12^'^), a resident about the Lower Yangtse (Styan a 16), 
apparently so in Ceylon (a 8)\ but, according to Mr. Whitehead it is a winter 
migrant to Borneo and Palawan, arriving in Palawan on its way south about 
the middle of September (a 14, a 15), and such we believe it will he found 
to be in the Sangi Islands and in Celebes, where specimens have been recorded 
only by Meyer (March) and Guillemard. The time is not yet ripe for 
splitting up A. ispida into subspecies, even if it is ever desirable to do so. 
^ 81. ALCEDO MOLUCOANA (Less.). 
Blue-eared Kingfisher. 
a. Alcedo ispida var. moluceana (1) Lesson, Voy. Coquille I, pt. 1, p. 343 (1826?). 
b. Alcedo ispida var. (1) Lesson, Man. d’Orn. 1828, 11, 89. 
c. ? Alcedo bengalensis (1) S. Mull, Verb. Natuurk. Oomm. 1839 — 43, 87, 110; id., Eeize Ind. 
Arch. 1858, 11, 8. 
d. Alcedo ispidioides (1) Less., Compl. Buff. 1837, IX, 345; (2) Salvad., Ann. Mns. Civ. 
Gen. 1875, VH, 652; (3) id., Orn. Pap. 1880, I, 408; Agg. 1889, 53; (4) W. Bias., 
P. Z. S. 1882, 703; (5) id. & Nehrk., Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien 1882, 418; (6) W. Bias., 
J. f. 0. 1883, 136, Xr. 36; (VII) Meyer, Vogelskel. pt. VII, 1884, p. 45, pi. LXITI; 
(8) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1886, 92; (9) Grant, P. Z. S. 1888, 192; (10) 
Sharpe, Cat. B. XVH, 1892, 152; (11) Meyer, J. f. 0. 1892, 258; (12) M. & Wg., 
Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Xr. 8, p. 7; (13) iid., ib. 1896, Xr. 2, p. 11; (14) Hartert, 
Xov. Zool. 1896, 175, 244. 
e. Alcedo moluccensis (1) Blytb, J. A. S. B. 1846, XV, 11; (II) Sharpe, Monogr. Alcedin. 
1870, 21, pi. 4; (3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIII, 45; (4) Brligg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 
1876, V, 55; (5) Eosenb., Malay. Archip. 1878, 271; (6) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 64; 
(7) E. L. C. Layard, ib. 1880, 299; (8) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 547, .566; (9) 
Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 90; (10) Cab. & Echw., Xomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 163. 
f. Alcedo minor moluccensis (1) Scbl., Mus. P.-B. Alcedin. 1863, 8; (II) id., Vog. Xed. Ind. 
Alcedin. 1864, 5, 44, pi. 1, fig. 4, 5; (3) id., Eev. Alcedin. 1874, 3. 
g. Alcedo ispida ispidioides (1) Hartert, Xov. Zool. 1896, 571. 
h. Alcedo ispida moluceana (1) Hartert, Xov. Zook 1897, 160, 163. 
“Kikis wowolean” (IGngfisber which lives on the river-side), Minabassa, Meyer e 6. 
“Eadja oudang biru” or “Pasa biru”, Minabassa, Xat. Coll, in Mus. Dresd. 
“Sunti”, Tonkean, E. Celebes, iid. 
“Singtobu”, Pebng, iid. 
For further synonymy and references see Sharpe d 10. 
Figures and descriptions. Sharpe e II, d 10', Schlegel f II', Meyer d F7J (skeleton) ; Sal- 
vador! d 3; AV. Blasius d 4, d 8. 
Adult. Similar to Alcedo ispida, but with the ear-coverts blue, like the cheeks, not cinnamon- 
rufous; the blue of the upper surface purer, not greenish blue (more campanula-blue 
instead of turquoise-blue or light cerulean), (Banka Id., X. Celebes, 15. V. 93, C 12258). 
Iris brown; tarsus bright red; bill black in the male. 
Female. The females have the base of the lower mandible orange (Guillem, e 8). 
Young. Upper surface blacker’, the blue bars on the bead being narrower, and the scapulars 
blackisli; the blue of the back, rump and upper tail-coverts paler; basal part of man- 
dil)lo pale (X. Celebes, C 3615). “The young bird differs from the adult in having 
