. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . s not found in the continent of India, but occurs in the south of the Malaypeninsula, and thence extends eastward to the Isles. The Kingfisher described by Sonnerat in his voyage pi. 32, as Le Martin-pecheur de Iisle de Lutjon, the Luzonian K. of Latham No. 58, is perhaps the same as thesubject of our present plate. If not, it will form a third and closely allied species. The New Holland 3 toed Kingfishers have been separated from Ceyx by Swains
. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . s not found in the continent of India, but occurs in the south of the Malaypeninsula, and thence extends eastward to the Isles. The Kingfisher described by Sonnerat in his voyage pi. 32, as Le Martin-pecheur de Iisle de Lutjon, the Luzonian K. of Latham No. 58, is perhaps the same as thesubject of our present plate. If not, it will form a third and closely allied species. The New Holland 3 toed Kingfishers have been separated from Ceyx by Swainson,under the name oi Alcyone. Two species are described. Ist^^. azurea (Lath.), ./I. trihrachys,Shaw, N. M., Ceyx azureus, Jard. and Sleby, 111. Orn. 55. 1., Ceyxcyana,Lesson, A aus-tralis, Sw; and 2nd C Menitigting Lesson, Zool. de la Coquille, which would appear to bedistinct from Horsfields A. Meningting, and is certainly so, from the A. biru of the sameauthor, which the writer of the article Kingfisher, in the Penny Cyclopedia erroneouslyidentifies with it. This species (from new Guinea) appears very closely allied to //. azurea. riate XX\:. Leonard Htii r-vr Rrollnfi-r. ORD. INSESSORES. TRIBE—SCANSORES. GEN. BUCCO. PLATE XXVI. BUCCO VIBIDIS, GREEN BARBET. Synon—5. Viridis, L., Jcrd. Cat. No. 217 in part—Xe Barlu vert, Buff—Ze Sarlude Mahe, The genus Bncco, as at present limited, is a well marked one, and appears confined toIndia and the Eastern Isles. Green is the predominant colour, both of the upper and lowersurface, varied, according to the species, about the head and neck, with other colours, some-times most brilliant. The present species belongs to a small group, of which there are at least three species incontinental India, distinguished by the plain brown and white markings of the head andneck. They abound in all the large forests, where their loud voice Koturr, KHurr, Koiurr,may be heard ringing through the woods for a vast distance, throughout most of
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