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39. Halcyon tristrami. 



Halcyon tristrami, Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 4(10, pi. 15 (SanCristoval) ; 



Rconsaij, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. JV. vii. p. 21 (1883 : Solomon 



Isl.) ; Finsch, Viiff. der Sildsee, p. 8 (1884) ; Sharpe in Gould's B. 



New Guinea, iv. pi. 54 (1885) ; Grant, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 330 



(Fauro), 1888, p. 193. 

 Sauropatis tristrami, Sah-ad. Orn. Pajniasia, iii. App, p. 524 (1882) ; 



id. Acjrj. Orn. Pcipuasiu, i. p. 58 (1889). 



Adult male. Green, like //. cJdoris, but rather larger, and easily 

 distinguished bj' tlie tawny-buff collar on the hind neck and tawny 

 underparts ; the throat whitish ; supraloral spot tawny buff ; a 

 spot below the eye, and a few feathers above the latter, white ; the 

 head green, but inclining to blue above the eye and on the sides of 

 the crown and nape ; a concealed occipital patch of white or 

 ochreous buff : " bill black, white towards the base of lower 

 mandible; feet blackish; iris brown" (G. E. Richards). Total 

 length 8"5 inches, culmen 2, wing 4*15, tail 2'8, tarsus 0"6. 



Adult female, Similar in colour to the male, but whitish on the 

 centre of the abdomen. Total length 9 inches, culmen 2"0, wing 

 4'25, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-6. 



YoxiiKj. Exactly like the adult, but with a few dusky margins to 

 the feathers of the breast, and having a much shorter bill. 



It would seem that in this species the immature birds do not 

 have any fulvous margins to the wing-coverts. 



Hah. Solomon Islands and New Britain. 



a. (S ad. sk. Blanche Bay, New Britain, L. C. Layard, Esq. 



.June 13. [C.]. 



b. (S ad. sk. Blanche Bay, July 2 {G. E. Tweeddale Coll. 



Ilichard.s). 



c. Juv. 8k. Kabaliadai, New Britain, Feb. Rev. G. Brnwn [C."l. 

 rf. $ ad. .sk, New Britain, May 22. Dr. Kubary [C.J. 

 e,f. (5 ? ad. sk. Fauro, Solomon Islands. C. M. Woodford, 



Esq. [C.]. 



40. Halcyon sanctus. 



The Sacred King's Fisher, Philipps, Voy. Bot. B. p. 156 (1789) ; 

 White's Vol/. A\ S. W. p. 193, pi. 17 (1790). 



Alcedo .sacra, var., Shaiv, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 78 (1811). 



Halcyon .sacra (nee Gm.), Steph. in Shaw Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 98 

 (1826) ; Jard. S^- Selby, III. Orn. ii. pis. 96, 97 (c. 1839). 



Halcvon collaris {nee Swains.), Vig. Sf- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 206 

 (1826); Gould, Si/n. B. Austr. pt. iii. (1838). 



Halcyon sanctus, Vig. 8,- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 206 (1826) : 

 Siuains. Classif. B. ii. p. 335 (1837) ; Gould, B. Austr. ii. pi. 21 

 (1840) ; <S'. .\nill. Verh.Land-en Volhenk. p. 175 (1839-44); Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 79 (1846) ; id. List Fi'isir. Brit. Mus. p. 56 (184S) ; 

 Reichenb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 33 (1850) : Elsey, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 25 ; 

 Gray,P.Z.S. 1858, pp. 172, 190, 1859, pp. 154, 160; id. Cat. 

 Ma'mm. S^- B. New Guinea, pp. 20. 55 (1859) ; id. Cat. B. 

 Trop. Isl. p. 6 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 346, 1861, p. 433; id 

 Ibis, 1862, p. 2] 6 ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484 ; Pelz. Beis. Novara, 

 Vog. pp. 44, 161 (1865) ; Ilartl. Sf Finsch, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 116, 

 118 (Pelew Islands): Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 119: Dingles, Orn. 



