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bird of the present species. Both S. tijro and S. cjaudichaudi often 

 show traces of a blue cyebro'w. 

 Hah. Aril Islands. 



a, b. S ad. ; c. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



5 ad. sk. (Tj'pes of species.) 



d. Ad. sk. ; e. Aru Islands {von Roseyiberg : Tweeddale Coll. 



5 ad. sk. Sharps Coll.). 



f, (J. Irani, sk. Aru Islands. Gould Coll. 



h. (5 juv. sk. Wokan, Aru Islands. Voy. of H.M.S. 



' Challenger.' 

 i. Imm. sk. S.E. New Guinea. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



16. HALCYON. 



I 



Type. 



Halcyon, Sioains. Zool. Illustr. text to pi. 27 



(1820) H. seuegalensis. 



Entomothera, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 173, 



note (1820) H. coromandus. 



. CaUialcyon, Bj). C'otisp. i. p. 156 (1850) H. coromandus. 



Chelicutia, Reichenh. Handb., Alced. i. p. 38 (1851) H. cheUcutensis. 

 Aetenoides, Hombr. 8/- Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. 



iii. p. 100 (1853) H. homhroni. 



Cancrophaga, Bp, Consp. Volucr. Anis. p. 9 (1854). H. badius. 



Cyanalcyon, Bp. t. c. p. 9 (1854) H. pyrrhopygius. 



Pagurothera, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Sein. Th. ii. 



p. 152 (1860) H. chelicutensis. 



Entomobia, iid. t. c. p. 154 H. cyaniveutiis. 



Sauropatis, iid. t. c. p. 158 H. sanctus. 



Caridagrus, iid. t. c. p. 161 II. concretus. 



Astacophilus, iid. t. c, p. 162 H. lindsayi. 



Range. From Palestine and Asia Minor to Persia. Throughout 

 the whole of Africa and the Australian and Indian Regions to 

 China, the southern islands of Japan, and Manchuria. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Bill entirely red. 



a'. Crown lilac-red like the rest of the upper 

 surface ; a blue streak in the centre of lower 



back and rump coromandus, p. 217, 



v. Crown chestuut-rufous ; lower back bright 

 greenish blue. 

 «". Scapulars chestnut ; under surface of body 



white badius, p. 221. 



h'' . Scapulars greenish blue. ■ . ■ ^jj.-, 



a". Throat and centre of breast white .. < / ,. '^'TXi^' 

 V". Throat only white ; entire breast ' ^^«^"'-«'''>'-, P- 226. 



chestnut gularis, p. 227. 



c'. Crown black ; lower back idtramarine-blue. 



c". Abdomen blue ajaniventris, p. 228. 



d". Abdomen rich orange-bufl' pileatus, p. 229. 



