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find. Their food consists mostly of crabs and other crusteceans, 

 togetlier with small fishes, lizards, insects, and centipedes. 



SAUROPATIS CHLORIS CHLORIS (Boddaert). 



Alccdo Chloris Boddaekt, Tabl. Planch. Enlum. d'Hist. Nat., 1783, p. 49 

 (based on Martin-Pecheur d tcte vertc du Cap de Bonne Esperance, 

 d'Aubenton, Planch. Enluin., pi. 783, fig. 2 ; also on Le Martin-Pecheur a 

 Tete Verte, Buffon, Hist. Nat. des Oiseaux [ed. Montbeillard], vol. 13, 

 1780, p. 279; and the Green-headed Kingfisher, Latham, Gen. Synop. 

 Birds, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1782, p. 620). 



Alcedo chloroeephala Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 1, 17SS, p. 454 (Burn 

 Island. Molucca Islands). 



Halcyon chloris keicnsis Berlepsch, Abhandl. Senckenb. Natui'f. Gesell., 

 vol. 34, Heft. 4, 1913, p. 494 (Warka, Great Kei Island, Kei Islands). 



Snhspecific character's. — Size large; auriculars usually blackish, 

 with little green; a wide, black nuchal band; upper parts rather 

 dark, distinctly greenish, and in the female, particularly on the head, 

 somewhat brownish; exposed surface of wing-quills, especially the 

 primaries, deep blue; sides and flanks with little or no bully suffu- 

 sion. 



Description. — Adult male. Pileum dull green ; back and scapulars 

 dark green ; a large, almost concealed patch of white on the occiput ; 

 a broad, black nuchal band; a broad, white cervical collar; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts green, more bluish than the inter- 

 scapulum; wings fuscous, the exposed portions of wing-quills deep 

 blue, the remainder of upper surface of wings more greenish; tail 

 bluish green or greenish blue; lores black; supraloral spot creamy 

 white ; a narrow line over the eye and a spot on lower eyelid white ; 

 remainder of sides of head greenish, except auriculars which are 

 mostly or wholly blackish ; entire lower surface white. 



Measurements. — Male^: Wing, 112,5 mm.; tail, 73; exposed cul- 

 men, 44; tarsus, 16.3. 



Female 2; Wing, 103-110.5 (average, 106.8) mm.; tail, 67.5-69 

 (68.2); exposed culmen, 42.3-45.5 (44.3); tarsus, 15.5-17 (16.2). 



Both sexes: Wing, 103-112.5 (average, 108.3) mm.; tail, 67.5-73 

 (69.4); exposed culmen, 42.3-45.5 (44.2); tarsus, 15.5-17 (16.2)-. 

 Wing, 108-120 (111.4). ^ 



Type locality. — Burn Island, Molucca Islands.^ 



Geographic distribvfion. — East India Islands: nor'ih to the 2\Jo- 

 lucca Islands, west to the Molucca Islands, and in the Lesser Sunda 

 Islands to Lombok Island; south to Lombok Island, Timor Island, 

 Sermata Island, and the Tiniorlaut Islands; and east to the Tinior- 

 laut, Kei, and Molucca islands. 



* One specimen, from the Molucca Islands. 



* Three specimens, from the Molucca Islands. 

 ■ Four specimens, from the Molucca Islands. 



* Ten specimens, measured by Hartert. 

 » See p. 35G. 



