16. HALCYON. 257 



blue ; quills black below, ashy along the inuer web : " feet blackish ; 

 iris dull chestnut-brown " (D'AJhertis). Total length 8-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-9, wing 3-75, tail 2-5, tarsus U-6. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the colouring of the 

 under surface, which is pure white, with a band of ultramarine 

 across the breast ; sides of body black ; under tail-coverts ultra- 

 marine. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 2, wing 3-6, tail 2'6, 

 tarsus (yC). 



Hah. N.W. New Guinea : Salawati and Batanta. 



a. 2 ad. sk. New Guinea. AVaUace Coll. (Type 



of species.) 

 h, c. c? 2 ad. sk. New Guinea. Gould Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Sorong. Purchased. 



e. Juv. sk. Salawati. Wallace Coll. 



/. c? j^iv. sk. N.W. New Guinea, April Levden Museum [P.]. 



20 (Bruijn). 



27. Halcyon stictolaemus. 



Cjaualcyon sticlola;ma, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. ix. p. 20 (1876) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 752 ; id. Ann. Mus. Genov. x. p. 10, note, 



p. 34 (1877) ; D'Albert. ^- Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 71 (1879) ; 



Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, i. p. 4o9 (1880). 

 Halc3'ou nigrocyauea {nee Wall.)., I)' Albert. Ibis, 1877, p. 360. 

 Cyanalcyon ni2:rocyaDea (wee Wall.), U Albert. Ann. Mus. Genov, 



X. pp.' 10, ly (1877). 

 Halcyon stictolsema, Gould, B. Neio Guinea, iv. pi. 58 (1880). 



Adult male. General colour above black, the head deep ultra- 

 marine, the sides of the crown more brilliant ultramarine inclining 

 to cobalt, forming an eyebrow which borders the blue crown and 

 encircles the nape ; wing-coverts ultramarine, the lesser ones 

 slightly more brilliant ; quills blackish, externally washed with 

 dull blue : scapulars black, washed with blue at the ends ; lower 

 back cobalt, deepening into ultramarine on the long feathers of the 

 rump ; upper tail-coverts deep ultramarine ; tail-feathers dark blue ; 

 lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck, sides 

 of breast, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts black, the latter 

 tipped with ultramarine ; chin black ; throat ultramarine, mottled 

 with white bases to the feathers ; breast and abdomen rich ultra- 

 marine ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black ; edge of wing 

 greenish blue ; quills dusky blackish below, ashy along the inner 

 web. Total length 9 inches, culmen 2-25, wing 3-25, tail 3, 

 tarsus 0"5. (il/«s. Genov.) 



Adult female. On the upper surface entirely like the male, but 

 differs below in having the throat and abdomen white, separated by 

 a broad pectoral band, which is ultramarine in the middle, black at 

 the sides ; sides of bodj' and flanks black ; under wing-coverts 

 black, with a band of white running down the middle, many of the 

 median and greater uuder wing-covcrts being tipped with white ; 

 under tail-covcrts as in the male. (Mus. Genov.) 



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