Luzon (Heriot, Möllendorff, Steere Exp., Whitehead).
“Adult.—Above lilac-rufous, washed with lilac; edge of wing rufous; scapulars rufous like the back, with a broad band of black on each side of mantle; wing-coverts black, spotted minutely with bright blue; alula, primary-coverts, and quills black; tail-feathers rufous like the back, the lateral ones blackish; crown lilac-rufous, with faint but distinct spots of brighter lilac; lores pale orange; eyelid and a mark in front of eye blackish; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks lilac-rufous, succeeded by a band of white on the sides of the neck, above which is a spot of bright blue; throat white; fore neck, breast, sides of body, and flanks bright lilac-rufous; abdomen white; thighs and under tail-coverts rufous, as well as the under wing-coverts and axillars and the inner edge of the quills. Length, 127; culmen, 30; wing, 53; tail, 18; tarsus, 9.
“Young.—Exactly similar to the adults, but with a shorter and paler bill, the latter being horny whitish.” (Sharpe.)
276. CEYX MINDANENSIS Steere.
MINDANAO KINGFISHER.
- Ceyx mindanensis Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 10; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 181 (foot note); Hand-List (1900), 2, 53; Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 47; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 53.
- Ceyx basilanica Steere, List Birds & Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 10.
- Ceyx platenæ Blasius, Jour. für Orn. (1890), 141.
Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Steere, Steere Exp., Platen, Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow).
“Above rufous; head, cheeks, and back thickly spotted with bright lilac; wings black, secondaries edged with rufous; coverts black, broadly tipped with rufous, these rufous tips carrying faint lilac spots; breast rufous washed with bright lilac.” (Steere.)
“With a very large series of specimens from Mindanao and Basilan at our disposal we are unable to detect the slightest difference between the birds from the two islands and we therefore unite them under the name C. mindanensis, as the Mindanao birds were obtained and described first. Frequents forest or low second growth away from water.” (Bourns and Worcester.)
“Since Steere has attempted to separate the Mindanao and Basilan birds, we give measurements from all our specimens: