356 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vou66. 



While there is a considerable range of individual variation in this 

 race, particularly in size, the average characters are sufficiently 

 marked to separate it readily from Sauropatis chlorls cyanescens and 

 Sauro'patis chloris collaris on the one hand, and from Sauropatis 

 chlorls solomonis on the other. Dr. Hartert has already pointed out^ 

 most of these characters and outlined the general range of Sauropatis 

 chloris chloris. 



The adult female of this race differs from the adult male in hav- 

 ing the auriculars even more uniformly' blackish, with scarcely a 

 trace of green, and the upper parts, including the exposed surface 

 of wings and tail, duller and more greenish. The adult female is 

 also slightly washed with pale buffy on the supraloral spot, flanks, 

 breast, and white cervical collar. 



The Juvenal female has a stronger tinge of buff on the supraloral 

 spot, sides, flanks, and white cervical collar than has the adult of the 

 same sex, with also a slight wash of greenish on the black ear-coverts. 



Boddaert was the first author to give this kingfisher a binomial 

 name, and he christened it Alcedo chloris,^ basing this on the Mar- 

 tin-Pecheur a tcte verte du Gap de Bonne Esperance of d'Aubenton ^; 

 Le Martin-Pecheur a Tete Verte of Buffon*; and the Green-headed 

 Kingfisher of Latham.^ Buffon states * that the locality. Cape of Good 

 Hope, given on d'Aubenton's plate, is erroneous, and that the bird 

 really came from the island of Burn, in the Molucca group. Latham," 

 too, gives Burn Island as the locality of his "green headed king- 

 fisher." It is thus clear that the type locality should be Burn Island, 

 as Dr. E. Hartert has already explained.^ Furthermore, Doctor 

 Hartert at the same time definitely fixed Buru as the type locality,'' 

 so that even if we disregard the remarks of Buffon, as of course we 

 should not do, the type locality would remain Buru Island from 

 Doctor Hartert's designation. The subsequent action of Count von 

 Berlepsch in selecting Java as the type locality ® can, therefore, not 

 stand. This author's Halcyon chlo7ns keiensis,^ based on the bird 

 from the Kei Islands, described under the supposition that the birds 

 from Java represented the typical form, seems, consequently, to be a 

 synonym of Sauropatis chloris chloris. I have not, however, had 

 specimens from the Kei Islands for examination, but, judging from 

 the original description, there appear to be no characters to separate 

 them from Sauropatis chloris chlofis. 



1 Novlt. Zool., vol. 11, No. 1, Mar. 25, 1904, p. 198. 



"Tabl. Planch. Enlum. d'llist. Nat., 1783, p. 49. 



« Planch. Enlum., pi. 783, fig. 2. 



*Hist. Nat. des Oiseaux [ed. Montbeillard], vol. 13, 1780, p. 279. 



6 Gen. Synop. Birds, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1782, p. 620. 



' Loc. cit. 



' Novit. Zool., vol. 11, No. 1, Mar. 25, 1904, p. 197. 



8 Abhandl. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesells., vol. 34, Heft 1, 1911, p. 75. 



• Idem. Heft 4, 1913, p. 494. 



