TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 195 



233081. Adult male. Palanog, Masbate Island, Philippine Islands. No- 

 vember 6, 1892. Collected by Dean C. Worcester and Frank S. Bourns. 

 Received from the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences (where it 

 was No. 820 of the Menage Collection) . 

 Halcyon senegalensis cinereicapillus Mearns 

 Proc. U.S. Nat, Mus. 48: 391, January 19, 1915. 

 =Halcyon senegalensis senegalensis (Linnaeus). See Peters, Checklist of 



birds of the world 5 : 198, 1945. 

 216577. Adult male. Kisingo (on the Kampala-Hoima road, between 

 Katwe and Kigoma), Mengo (or Mubende) District, Uganda Protec- 

 torate. December 29, 1909. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original 

 number 17859. Smithsonian African Expedition. 

 Halcyon malimbicus prenticei Mearns 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 48: 392, January 19, 1915. 

 =Halcyon malimbica prenticei Mearns. See Peters, Checklist of birds of 



the world 5: 199, 1945. 

 217407. Adult (sex not indicated). Sese Islands, northwestern Lake 

 Victoria, Uganda Protectorate. Not later than 1909-1910. Collected 

 by Father Prentice (of the French Mission, Uganda). Received from 

 Edgar A. Mearns. 

 Dacelo albifrons "Peale MSS." Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Om.) : 162, "pi. xuu," 1848. 

 =Halcyon sancta vagans (Lesson). See Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



70: 208, 1930; Peters, Checklist of birds of the world 5: 205, 1945. 

 14555. Immature female. Bay of Islands, North Island, New Zealand. 

 March 1840. Original number 482. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838- 

 1842). 

 14573. Subadult male. Same data as 14555. 



Cassin's MS. list shows that he saw three examples of this bird, and there 

 are three entries in the museum register. No. 14591 is now No. 75704 in 

 the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

 Sauropatis chloris cyanescens Oberholser 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 52: 189, February 8, 1917. 

 Halcyon chloris laubnianniana Grote 



Anzeiger der ornithologischen Gesellschaft in Bayern 2 (6) : 266, March 

 20, 1933. 

 =Halcyon chloris lauhmanniana Grote. See Peters, Checklist of birds of 



the world 5: 208, 1945. 

 170835. Adult male. Pulau Taya=Pulau Saya (lat. 0°47' S., long. 

 104°56' E.), South China Sea. July 28, 1899. Collected by William 

 L. Abbott. 

 Halcyon chloris lauhmanniana Grote is a new name for Sauropatis chloris 

 cyanescens Oberholser, 1917, not H. cyanescens Cabanis and Reichenow, 

 1877, and is based upon the same type specimen. 



