254 ALCEDINID,?;. 



chest is a broad collar of bright blue ; thighs black. Total length 

 7-7 inches, culmen 1-65, wing 3-2, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-5. 



Younq female. Resembles the old male, but has an orange-bufF 

 supralorai spot and an orange-buff collar round the hind neck ; 

 across the chest an indistinct collar of orange-buff. 



Hab. Molucca Islands : Halmahera or Gilolo, Ternate, Batchian, 

 Morotai, Tidore, Motir, Dammar, Obi Lattou. 



a. c? ad. j b, c, d. J Gilolo. Wallace Coll. 



ad. et imm. sk. 



e, /■. cT ? ad. sk. Batchiau. Wallace Coll. 



c/''9 ad.sk. Batchian. Gould Coll. 



h. 6 ad. sk. Ternate {A. B. Steere). Hume Coll. 



i',k. 6 ad.; I, m. $ Ternate. Wallace Coll. 



ad. et iuv. sk. 



ji. <5 ad.'sk. Ternate. Voy. H.M.S. 'Chal- 



ieuger.' 



0. S ad. sk. Moluccas. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



24. Halcyon macleayi. 



Halcyon macleayi, Jard. S,- Selbi/, III. Orn. pi. 101 (1825-39) ; Gould, 

 B'Austr. ii. pi. 24 (1843) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 79 (1840) ; id. List 

 Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1848) ; Reichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 34 



(^ B. Neiv Guinea, p. 

 p. 84 ; Biggies, Orn. Austr. pi. 25. fig. 1 (1868) ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 92, no. 1106 (1869) ; Sliarpe, Monogr. Alced. p. 207, pi. 78 

 (1870) ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 492 (1878), xiv. p. 686 

 (1879) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 390 (1876 : Port 

 Moresby), ii. p.'l79 (1878), iii. p. 261 (1879), iv. p. 97 (1879) ; id. 

 op. cit. (2) i. p. 1097 (1886: N.W. Australia), ii. p. 166 (1887: 

 Derby) ; Co.v ^- Hamilton, op. cit. iv. p. 402 (1889 : Mudgee dis- 

 trict) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 3 (1888). 



Halcyon iucinctus, Goidd, P. Z. S. 1837, p- 142. 



Alcedo diopthalmo-rufo-ventre, Hombr. ^ Jacq. Ann. Sci. Nat. (2) 

 xvi. p. 315 (1841). 



Todirhamphus macleayi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 157 (1850); Reichenb. 

 llandb., Alced. p. 29, Taf. 416. tigs. 3124, 3125 (1851) ; Rosenh. 

 Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Lid. xxv. p. 230 (1863) ; id. J. f. O. 1864, 

 p. 118. 



Cyanalcyon macleayi, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Anis. p. 9 (1854) ; Cab. Sr 

 Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 158 (1860) ; Gould, Handb. B. 

 Austr. i. p. 133 (1865) ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 58 ; Salvad. ^ 

 D' Albert. Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 815 (1875) ; Salvad. op. cit. ix. 

 p. 19 (1876) ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 47 (1876), 

 ii. p. 270 (1878 : Port Darwin) ; D' Albert. Ann. Mus. Genov. x. 

 p. 19 (1877) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 304 ; B' Albert. ^- Salvad. op. cit. xiv. 

 p. 50 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia etc. i. p. 465 (1880) ; Ramsay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ix. p. 864 (1884) ; Salvad. Agg. Orn. 

 Papuasia, i. p. 57 (1889). 



Cyanalcyon lazuliuus (nee T.), Bp. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854) ; 

 Cab. ij- Heine, Mus. Hein. Jh.il p. 158 (1860). 



Halcyon (Actenoides) jacquinoti, Gray, Cat. B. Trap. IsL Pacific 

 Ocean,-p.7 (l859,exH.^J.). 



