On two remarkable new Species of Kingfishers. 231 XXIX. — Description of two remarkable new Species of King-fishers. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &'c, Department of Zoology, British Museum. Mr. Charles Huntein, who is collecting in South-eastern New Guinea, has forwarded to the British Museum a series of birds obtained by him on the East Cape, in Milne Bay, and neighbouring localities. Amongst many interesting birds there are two which are undoubtedly new to science, both of them being members of the family Alcedinidae. Genus Tanysiptera. Tanysiptera Danae, sp. n. T. affinis T. mjmpJue, Gray, sed pileo dorsoque brunneis, supercilio et facie laterali tota rufo -brunneis facile distinguenda. Long. tot. 10*5, culm. 1*25, ate 3'45, caudse 6-4, tarsi 06. Lest any idea should occur that this species could be a stage of plumage of T. nympha, which it agrees with in the crimson under surface and lower back, it is well to state that the collection contained numerous examples of T. Danae, young birds as well as adult. With the exception of Tanysiptera obiensis of Salvadori, from the Obi group of islands, and T. Emilice, Sharpe, from Raow, the British Museum contains examples of every species of the genus ; and I may notice here that, having now seen several specimens of T. salvadoriana, Ramsay, from Port Moresby, I am convinced that it is distinct from T. sylvia, Gould, of Cape York. The discovery of the new species described in this paper will bring the number of Tanysipterai known to inhabit the island of New Guinea up to five, no other island in the Papuan archipelago as yet possessing more than one. Clytoceyx, gen. nov. Genus novum Daceloninarum, rostro quam cauda breviore, culmine laevi rotundato, rectricibus 12, commissura integra, naribus linearibus, tarso longiore quam halluce cum ungue mensurato, rostro magno obtuso, altitudine ad nares mensurata ejus latitu-dinem aequante insignissimum. Typus est Clytoceyx rex, sp. n. S . Capite brunneo ; plumis oculum circumcingentibus et facie laterali brunneis ; regione parotica nigra usque ad collum posti-cum nigrum producta et torquem latam formante ; fascia supra-parotica, genis imis et fascia lata cervicali ochrascenti-fulvis ; interscapulio nigro ; scapularibus et tectricibus alarum brunneis,
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