262 ALCEDINIUJ;. 



Adult male. General colour green, more dusky on the upper 

 mantle; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brighter l)lue ; 

 wing-coverts greenish blue ; quills black, externally ultramarine ; 

 tail deep ultramarine ; crown of head green, the forehead streaked 

 with cinnamon ; lores and a very broad band over the eye, encircling 

 the nape, bright cinnamon ; eyelid blackish above, cinnamon below ; 

 ear-coverts dark green, black posteriorly, joined to a black collar 

 which surrounds tlie bind neck; tiiis is succeeded by a broad 

 collar of cinnamon-buff ; under surface of body cinnamon-bufF, 

 paler on the throat ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like the 

 breast. Total length 7-5 inches, culmen 1-5, wing 3, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather duller in colour. 

 Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 1-55, wing '3, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-55. 



Rab. Islands of Timor, Wetter, and Lombock. 



a, b. S ad. at imm. sk. East Timor. Wallace Coll. 



c,d. S 2 ad. sk. Lombock. Wallace Coll. 



e. tS ad. sk. Lombock (A. R. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



Subsp. a. Halcyon minor. 



Sauropatis australasite, var. minor, Meyer, Zeifschr.ges. Orn. i. p. 196 



(1884). 



Adidt (type of species). Similar to H. australasice, but smaller, 

 and with the crown dusky green, the abdomen also white like the 

 throat ; the ear-coverts also blaclier than in H. australasice. Total 

 length 6-7 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 3-1, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-5. {Mvs. 

 Dresd.) 



Hub. Timor-laut. 



33. Halcyon sacer. 



Sacred Kingfisher, var. A, Lath. Gen. St/n. i. pt. 2, p. 621 (1782). 

 Alcedo sacra, var. A, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 458 (1788; e.r Lath.). 

 Alcedo sacra, var. B, Lath. Ind. Or/i. i. p. 213 (1790) ; Bomi. et 



Vieill. Enc. Meth. i. p. 294 (182;!). 

 Alcedo collaris, varr. 1, 2, Forster, Descr. Anim. p. 163 (1844). 

 Dacelo vitiensis. Leak, U.S. Eajyl. Eaped. p. 166, pi. 144 (1848) ; 



Kartl. Arch.f. Naturg. p. 110. 

 Halcyon superciliosa, Gray, List Fissir. Brit. Mi/s. p. 56 (1848) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 92, no. 1119 (1869). 

 Todirhamphus sacer, Bp. Cons]}. i. p. 156 (18."iO) ; C'«-<s. Cat. Halo. 



Philad. Mns. -p. 10 (l8-')2). 

 Halcyon coronata (nee Miill.), Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacijic 



Ocean, p. 5 (1859). 

 Halcvon vitiensis. Gray, t. c. p. 5 (1859) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 93, 



no.' 1120 (1869). 

 Todirhamphus vitiensis, Cass. U.S. E.vpl. E.rped. pp. 195, 209, pi. 16 



(1858). 

 Todirhamphus tuta, pt., Cass. t. c. pp. 192, 209, pi. 15. figs. 1,2 



(1«58). 



