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Show 1875.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM LABUAN. 101 mately to be only a stage of the last-named bird. They all possess in a greater or less degree the blue terminal spots to the median wing-coverts, and are generally of a more brilliant shade than the ordinary C. rufidorsa; all have, also, red tails and coral-red beaks. One of them has the wing-coverts rufous ; but the other two exhibit a tolerable admixture of black. The black line running along the hinder scapulars, so apparent in the typical specimen, exists only in one of the examples ; and there it is also so shaded with blue as closely to approach C. dillwynni. None of the specimens of C. sharpii has the frontal spot, which is plainly marked in all three of C. dillwynni. Having examined the types both of Strickland's C. rufidorsa and Salvadori's C. innominata, I can affirm that they are absolutely one and the same species; and the latter title must therefore give way. 6. CEYX DILLWYNNI, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 591; id. Monogr. Alced. pl. 43 ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 99. I was delighted to see three more specimens of this previously unique Kingfisher. The type was originally described by me from a Labuan specimen procured by the late Mr. Motley, and apparently was quite adult, judging from the specimens now sent, which have short and brownish beaks. In the main they agree with the description and figure of the type in m y ' Monograph ; and all have blackish tails, more or less rufous at the base of the feathers. 7. ALCEDO MENINTING, Horsf.; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 93. Alcedo asiatica, Sw.; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. pl. 5. The receipt of three specimens in Mr. Low's collection strengthens my opinion expressed in the 'Monograph,' that the Bornean examples of this Kingfisher are not different from those inhabiting other parts of the Indo-Malayan subregion. The only really variable form of A. meninting that I am aware of is the bird now called by Lord Walden Alcedo beavani. Lord Walden has now seen several specimens, and he may therefore be right in considering Alcedo beavani a distinct species ; but I should like to compare a series of both before admitting that it is any thing more than a large race of A. meninting. A very young bird sent by Mr. Low is very similar to the adult birds, and is even more brilliant cobalt on the back, but differs in the short beak, which is black with an ivory-white tip. 8. HALCYON PILEATA (Bodd.); Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. pl. 62. Entomobia pileata, Salvad. /. c. p. 102. One example known from Sarawak, but not previously met with in Labuan. Family M E R O P I D A E. 9. M E R O P S BICOLOR, Bodd.; Salvad. /. c. p. 90. Mr.' L o w has sent quite a series of this Bee-eater, the adults not presenting any remarkable variation beyond a certain difference in |