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Birds of Celebes: Alcedinidae. 
82. ALOEDO MENINTING Horsf. 
Malayan Kingfisher. 
Alcedo meninting {1) Horsf., Tr. L. S. 1821, XTH, 172; (II) Temm., PL Col. 1823, Hr. 239, 
fig. 2; (III) Eeichb., Hb. sp. Om. Alcedin. 1851, 4, pi. 394, fig. 3050 — 51; (4) 
Scbb, Mas. P.-B. Alcedin. 1863, 9; (Vj id., Vog. Xed. Ind. Alcedin. 1864, 6, 44, 
pi. 3, fig. 2,- 3; (,9‘''^) id., Eevue Alcedin. 1874, 5; (6) Salvad., Cat. Ucc. Borneo 
1874, 93; (7) id., Ann. IMns. Civ. Gen. 1875, AH, 652; (8) Sbarpe, P. Z. S. 1879> 
329; (9) Vorderman, Kat. Tdsebr. Ned. Tnd. 1882, XLI, 185; (10) Oates, Sti-. 
P. 1882, X, 188; (11) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 115; (12) id., Ztsebr. ges. Orn. 1886, 
94; (13) id., Ornis 1888, 307; (14) A'orderman, X. T. Ned. Lid. 1891, L, 4.)4; 
(15) id.. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1891, 124; (16) Hartert, Ornis 1891, 121; (17) Sharpe, 
Ibis 1894, 246, 258; (18) Everett, Ibis 1895, 30; (19) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 
1895, LIV, 334; Blanf., Eaun. Br. Ind. B. IH, 1895, 125; (20) Kuscbel, 
Orn. Mb. 1895, 156; (21) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 8; (22) iicL, 
ib. Nr. 2, p. 11; (23) Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, 550. 
a. Alcedo asiatica (I) Sws., Zool. Illustr. 1821, I, pi. 50; (II) Sbarpe, Monogr. Alcedin. 
1870, 25, pi. 5; (3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, AHH, 45; (4) Briigg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 
1876, V, 55; (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 64; (6) Oates, B. Brit. Bunnab 1883, H, 73; 
(7) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 255; (8) Everett, J. Str. Br. E. A. S. 1889, 159; (9) 
Whitehead, Ibis 1890, 45; (10) Oates ed. Hume’s Nests & Eggs 1890, HI, 6. 
“Sunti”, E. Celebes, Tonkean, Nat. Coll. 
“Tengkesi mosoni”, Pcling, iid. 
The following authors more especially discuss local variations of tins species: 
On the typical Alcedo meninting. 
b. A. meninting (1) Hume, Str. E. 1878, VI, 83, 84; (2) Sbarpe, Cat. B. XVII, 1892, 157. 
Alcedo meninting rufigastra (Wald.). 
e. Alcedo meninting (1) Beavan, Ibis 1867, 319 (Andamans). 
d. Alcedo rufigastra (1) Wald., Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1873, XH, 487 (Andamans); (2) id., 
Ibis 1874, 136 (Andamans). 
e. Alcedo asiatica (1) Hume, Str. E. II, 1874, 174, 494. 
/'. Alcedo beavani (1) Hume, Str. E. IV, 1876, 287, 383 (Andamans); (2) Sharpe, Cat. B. 
XVn, 1892, 160 (Andamans). 
On Alcedo meninting rufigastra (Wald.j, 
or a hardly distinguishable continental form, Alcedo meninting beavani (Wald.). 
g. Alcedo beavani (1) Wald., Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1874, XIV, 158 (the name has special 
reference to Beavan’s specimen from Maunbboom); (2) id., Ibis 1875, 461 (Burmah); 
(3) Hume, Str. E. VI, 1878, 84, 499 fTenasserim); (4) id., ib. ’SHII, 1879, 468, note 
(Sikbim); (5) id., ib. IX, 1880, 247 (Cachar); (6) id., ib. X, 1882, 188 (Pegu); (7) 
Sbarpe, Cat. B. XVII, 1892, 160 (India to Cochm Cbma; Celebes i); (8) Gurney, 
P. Z. S. 1895, 339 (Ceylon); (9j Blanf., Faun. Br. Ind. B. IH, 1895, 124. 
1) Other writers have hitherto identified specimens from Celebes simply as A. meninting. Dr. Sharpe 
accepts their determination and includes Celebes as a locality of the typical form, treated by him as a species 
for itself. The specimens from Celebes personally examined by him in the British Museum are, however, 
referred to A. beavanil K-t . .r- i 
