Older ALCEDINIFORMES. 
Family ALCEDINIM. 
Genus RAMPHALCYON Reich. 
Hamphalcyon Reichenbach, Icon. Syn. Av., Alcedineae, p. 16, 1851. 
Type (by subsequent designation, Gray, 1855, p. 16) : Alcedo 
capensis L. = Pelargopsis burmanica Sharpe. 
Hylcaon ib., ib., p. 18. Type (by monotypy): Alcedo melanorhyncha Temm. 
(Replaces Pelargopsis Glower, 1841, indeterminable.) 
Hamphalcyon melanorhyncha (Temm.). 
Distr. — Celebes and Islands. 
Hamphalcyon melanorhyncha melanorhyncha (Temm.). (17-97.) 
Alcedo melanorhyncha Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois. 
pi. 391, 1826 : Celebes. (Fig. Sharpe, Monogr. pi. 29.) 
Distr. — Celebes. 
Ramphalcyon melanorhyncha dichrorhyncha (M. & W.). 
Pelargopsis dichrorhyncha Meyer & Wiglesworth, Abb. Mus. 
Dresden, 1896, p. 12: Peling and Banggai Islands. (Fig. M. & 
W. pi. 9.) 
Distr. — Peling and Banggai Islands. 
Ramphalcyon melanorhyncha eutreptorhyncha (Hart.). 
Pelargopsis melanorhyncha eutreptorhyncha Hartert, Nov. Zool. 
vol. v. p. 128, 1898 : Sula Mangoli. 
Distr. — Sula Islands (Sula Mangoli). 
Ramphalcyon capensis Linne. 
Distr. — India to Lesser Sunda Islands. 
[Ramphalcyon capensis capensis (17-101.) 
Alcedo capensis Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. 12, pt. 1, p. 180, 1766: “ Cap 
der guten Hoffnung,” error = Java. 
Distr. — Java, Billiton, and South Sumatra ; Bangka. Extra- 
limital.] 
Ramphalcyon capensis floresiana (Sharpe). (17-103.) 
Pelargopsis floresiana Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond. 1870, p. 68 : 
Flores. (Fig. Sharpe, Monogr. pi. 36.) 
Pelargopsis sasak Vorderman, Nat. Tijdacbr. Ned. Ind. vol. liv. p. 334, 1895 : 
Lombok. 
Distr. — Flores and Lombok. • 
