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longest, the a little more than % their length; inner toe as long or longer 
than the hallux, longer than the tarsus. About 5 species, with numerous local 
races, ranging from India to the Philippines, Celebes and Flores. 
* 83. PELARGOPSIS MELANORHYNCHA (Temm.). 
Celebesian Stork-hilled Kingfisher. 
a. Aleedo^ melanorhyncha (I) Teuim., PI. Coll. 1826, pi. 391, livr. 66; (2) Sclil., Handb. 
d. Dierk. 1857, 306; (2) id., Mas. P.-B. Alcedin. 1863, 15; (IV) id., Vog. Ned. 
Ind. Ijsvogels 1864, 10, 47, pi. 2, fig. 1; ? (5) id., Eev. Alcedin. 1874, 8. 
b. Dacelo melanorhyncha (1) Less., Tr. d’Orn. 1831, 246 (Java!); Fin sell, Neu Guinea 
1866, 160. 
c. Halcyon melanorhyncha (1) Gray, Gen. B. 1846, I, 79; ^_2) Bp., Consp. 1850, I, 155; 
(3) Cass., Cat. Hale. Philad. Mus. 1852, 10; (4) Wall., Ibis 1860, 142; ? (o) id., 
P. Z. S. 1862, 335, 338; (3) Gray, HL. 1869, I, 92; (1) llosenb., Malay. Arebip. 
1878, 271; (8j Pelz. u. Lorenz, Ann. k. k. Nat. Hofmus. AVien 1886, I, 258. 
d. Hylcaon melanorhyncha (I) Reichb., Hb. spec. Orn., Alcedin. 1851, 18, pi. 399, f. 3074. 
e. Rhamphalcyon melanorhyncha (1) Bp., Consp. Vol. Anisod. 1854, 10. 
Pelargopsis melanorhyncha (1) Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, 62; (II) id., Monogr. Alcedin. 
1870, pp. XXATI, 95, pi. 29; (3) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 45; (4) Salvad., 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1875, 13; (5) Briigg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 55; (6) 
Meyer, Ibis 1879, 64, 146; (7j W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 136; (8) Guillem., 
P. Z. S. 1885, 547; (9) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1886, 92; (10) Cab. & Rchnw., 
NomencL Mus. Hein. 1890, 165; (11) Sharpe, Cat. B. XVH, 1892, 97; (12) M. 
& Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 7; (13) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 163; 
(XIV) Meyer, Abb. v. Vogelskel. 1897, pi. U, CCXAb 
“Radja udan puti” (Wbite king of the Crabs), Minahassa and the islands off the coast, 
Meyer 6, Nat. Coll. 
“Bua-Buaa”, Rosenb. e 7, ? Gorontalo. 
Figure’s and descriptions. Sharpe II (hum.), 7, 11\ Meyer XJF (skeleton); Temminckal; 
Reichb. d, J; Schlegel a IV, a 3. 
Adult. Head, neck and body above and below cream-colour, becoming darker, buff, more 
on abdomen; cheeks, around eye, and forehead drab, the feathers bordered with 
cream-colour; scapulars, wings and tail drab with gi-een and bluish reflections, 
changing with the light; inner webs of quills below buffy white, the colour spread- 
ing out over the under side of the wing towards the base of the feathers (Banka 
Id., N. Celebes, 20. V. 93 — C 12254). Iiis yellowish brown, feet red-brown; claws 
and bill black (M. 6). 
Sexes. Alike. 
Immature. Like the adult, but entire head above and cheeks pale smoke-grey; darker 
towards the forehead, with darker centres to the feathers; lores, ear-coverts, 
middle of mantle, scapulars, wings, tail, and the longer upper tail-coverts 
brown, much darker than in the adult, with greenish or bluish reflections; back and 
rump pale blue (!) upon a buff ground; breast and sides of neck barred with faint 
drab-colour; bill shorter than in the adult, black, horn-colour at extreme tip (near 
Manado, Aug.— Sept. 1892, C 10865). 
