258 ALCEDINID.?;. 



Toung. Resembles the old female, but is much more dusky 

 black, the crown beiug also black, with an ultramarine eyebrow ; 

 wing-coverts black, tipped with blue ; lower back bright ulti'a- 

 marine, but not so brilliant as in the adults ; sides of face and sides 

 of body, vent, and lower abdomen dusky black ; throat dull white, 

 the feathers obscured with dusky blackish tips ; centre of abdomen 

 pale ochraceous brown, separated from the throat by a broad blackish 

 band, tlie central feathers washed with blue ; under tail-covcrts 

 blackish, tipped with blue. {Mus. Genov.) 



Hah. Fly lliver. Southern New Guinea. 



28. Halcyon quadricolor. 



Oyanalcyon quadricolor, Ousfalef, Le Naturaliste, 1880, p. 323 ; 



Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, xvi. p. G22 (1881) ; id. Ann. 3Ius. 



Genov. xviii. p. 420 (1882) ; id. Orn. Papuasia, iii. App. p. 524 



(1882). 

 Halcyon quadricolor, Sharpe in. Gould's B. Neio Guinea, vol. iv. 



pi. 56 (1882). 



Adult. Similar to H. nigroci/aneus, but with the abdomen bright 

 cinnamon-red or chestnut ; a broad pectoral band of blue, separated 

 by a line of white from the rufous abdomen. Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen I'S, wing 4, tail 2"8. 



Nab. Northern New Guinea. 



In 1882 Mr. Keulemans made for me a sketch of the type of 

 Oi/analn/on quadricolor in the Paris Museum, and I figured the 

 species in Gould's ' Birds of New Guinea.' In colour the species 

 resembles the young of H. nigrociiaiieus ; but the typical specimen 

 has every appearance of being a fully adult bird. It may be, as 

 Salvadori has remarked, that the colouring which is a sign of 

 immaturity in H. nigrocyaneits is characteristic of the adult of 

 H. quadricolor. 



29. Halcyon pyrrhopygius. 



Halcyon pyrrhopygia, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 113; Gray, Gen. B. 

 i. p. 79 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 57 (1848) ; Goidd, B. 

 Austr. fol. ii. pi. 22 (1848) ; Reichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 277 (1850) ; 

 Biggies, Orn. Austr. pi. (1868) ; Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 92, 

 no. 1117 (1869) ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. p. 211, pi. 79 (1870) ; 

 C'asfeln. Sj- Ramsag, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. U'. i. p. 380 (1877: 

 Gulf of Cai-peutaria) ; Ramsay, op. cit. ii. p. 179 (1878) ; id. oj). cit. 

 vii. p. 45 (1883 : Bourke and Coban districts) ; id. op. cit. (2) i. 

 p. 1086(1886: N.W.Australia), ii. p. 160 (1887 : Derby); North, 

 op. cit. (2) iii. p. 774 (1888: Cumberland, N.S.W.) ; Co.v ^- Ham- 

 iltoti, op. cit. (2) iv. p. 401 (1889 : Mudgee di.strict) ; Ramsay, 

 Tab. List Austr. B. p. 3 (1888). 



Todirhamphus pyrrhopygius, Bji. Consj). i. p. 157 (1850); Reichenb. 

 Hanab., Alced. p. 33^ Taf. 420. fig. 3141 (1851) ; Cass. Cat. Hale. 

 Philad. Mus. p. 4 (1852); id. U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, p. 218 

 (1858) ; pould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 130 (i8ij5) ; Masters, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. j), 270 (1^78 : Pt. Darwin). 



