16. HALCTOX, 



271 



x". 2 a*!- *k- Togiau Islands {A. B. Meyer). 



i/"-b^. d ad. sk. Loinbock (A. R. Wallace), 



c^. Ad. sk. E. Java. 



(P-(l\ Ad. et Java {W. T. Fraser: Sharpe 



imm. sk. Coll.). 



h^-P. Ad. sk. Billitou ( Walter). 



k\ Ad. sk. Lampong, S.E. Sumatra {E. C. 



Bu.cton). 



l^. Skeleton. Australia. 



41. Halcyon vagans. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Sah-in-Godman Coll. 



Alcedo sacra, var. d, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Supijl. p. 114 (1787). 

 Alcedo sacra, var. e, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. i. p. 29-5 (1823). 

 .Alcedo vagans, Less. Voy. ' Coquille,'' i. pt. 2, p. 094 (1828). 

 Dacelo chlorocephala, var. y, Less. Tmite, p. 246 (1841). 

 Alcedo cyanea, Forster, Descr. Anirn. p. 76 (1844). 

 Halcyon vagans, Gray, Zool. Voi/. ' Erebus ' Sf ' Terror,' p. .3, pi. i. 

 (1846) ; id. Gen. B.'i. p. 79 (1846) : id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 57 



.. f.U. IHd, , p. __. , , ... ... „. ..„„.. .. ^. _^ ^__^ , 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 92, no. 1113 (1869) ; Sutton, t. c. p. 160 ; 



Potts, op. cit. ii. p. 52 (1870): Sharpe, Monoyr. Alced. p. 237, 



pi. 90 (1871): Buller, B. N. Zeal. p. 69 (1873): muton, Ibis, 



1874, p. 36 ; Sharpie, Voy. ' Erebus ' ^- ' Terror,'' App. p. 24 (1875) ; 



Finsch, Ibis, 1882, p. 396 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



vii. p. 88 (1883: Lord Howe's Isl.) ; Buller, B. N. Zeal. 2nd ed. 



p. 121, pi. xiii. (1888) : Etheridye, Mem. Austr. Mm. Sydney, 



no. 2 (Lord Howe's Island), p. 17 (1889). 

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



Handb., Alced. p. 31, Taf. 419. figs. 3188-89 (1851) : Cass. Cat. 



Halcyon. Philad. Mus. p. 12 (1852) : Bp. Consp. Volucr. Anis. 



p. 9 (1854) ; Cass. U.S. E.rpl. Exped. p. 201 (1858). 

 Dacelo sancta, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 37 (1863). 

 Dalcedo vagans, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, .Uced. Revue, p. 28 (1874). 

 Halcyon sanctus {nee Viy. Sf Horsf.), Finsch, J.f. O. 1870, p. 246. 

 Halcyon norfolkensis, Tristr. Ibis, 1885, p. 49. 



Adult. Similar to H. sanctus, but larger, and rather duller in colour 

 above, and very often rich ochreous-red below : " bill black, -with the 

 basal portion of the lower mandible white ; feet dark brown, with 

 paler soles ; iris black " ( W. Buller). Total length 8-6 inches, 

 culmen 1"9, wing 3'S, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-5. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having sandy margins to all the 

 wing-coverts, and dusky fringes to the feathers of the chest. 



This is a large and richly coloured island race of //. sanctus. The 

 wing varies from 3' 7 inches to 4. 



Mab. Xew Zealand ; jS^orfolk Island ; Lord Howe"s Island. 



a. Imm. sk. 



b. Imm. sk. 



c. 2 imm. sk. 



d. e. Juv. sk. 



New Zealand. 

 New Zealand. 



New Zealand, June 

 McGillivray). 



Nev Zealand ( T^nn 

 Sharpe Coll.). 



20 {J. 



Antarctic Expedition. 

 New Zealand Com- 

 pany [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 



Hanst : Tweeddale CoU. 



