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ALCEDINID.I;. 



/", 7. Imm.; /;. New Zealand. 

 ' 'rull.sk. 



I, k. Ad. sk. New Zealand. 



/, )». Ad. etimm. New Zealand. 



sk. 



n. (5" juv. .sk. Dunediu, June. 



0. Ini'iu. sk. Bay of Islands, Aug. 23 (I)r. 



McCormick). 



J). Imm. sk. Norfolk Island, June. 



5, r. (5 2 imm. sk. Norfolk Island, June (Dr. F. 



M. Raipte.r). 

 s, ?. cJ ? imm. sk. Eaoul Island (Dr. F. M. 



Hayncr). 

 u-x. Ad. sk. Lord Howe's Island. 



Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



Percy Earl, Esq. [P.]. 

 Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



Hume Coll. 

 McCormick Coll. 



J. Breucliley, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Voy.H.M.S. 'Herald.' 



Voy. H.M.S. 'Herald.' 



Mr. E. H. Saunders 

 [C.]. 



42. Halcyon cassini. 



Todirhampluis vitiensis, pt., Cass. U. S. Expl. Exped., Birds, p. 210, 



pi. xyi. fig. 1 (1858). 

 Halcyon sacra, pt., Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 391. 

 Halcyon cassini, Finsch Sf Ilartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. p. 40 (1867) ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 391 (Ovalau); Cab. ^- Reichen. J.f. 0. 1876, 



p. 323 (Ovalau). 



Adult. Allied to E. cMoris, but with the blue colour of H. sacer, 

 from which it differs in wanting the broad eyebrow and nuchal 

 band. The ear-coverts are blue like the head ; a supraloral spot 

 of white is produced into a narrow white superciliary line ; the 

 occipital patch is pale cinnamon, but there is no continuation with 

 the eyebrow, the feathers of the sides of the crown being either 

 brio-ht blue, or blue with white bases. Total length 8-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-65, wing 3-55, tail 2-6o, tarsus 0-6. 



Two immature birds, from Ovalau and Lcvuka, apparently belong 

 to this species. They have the flanks and abdomen, with the 

 under tail-coverts, bright orange-buff. 



Hah. Fiji Archipelago. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad.sk. 



Fiji Islands. 



Rewa, Viti Levu, Sept. 



A. P. Gordon, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 J. MacGillivray,Esq. 

 [C.]. 



c. J Imm. sk. Levuka, July 18 (i?. i. i/r«/M/-a!). Tweeddale Coll. 

 i. c? imm. sk. Ovalau, June 12 (i^. i. i«"«/«;'<^). Tweeddale Coll. 

 e. Ad. sk. Matuka. Gould CoU. 



Halcyon chloris and its allies. 

 A study of the ample material which now exists in the British 

 Museum has compelled me to modify very considerably the con- 

 clusions arrived at in my 'Monograph' nearly twenty years ago. 

 Instead of the single species which I then acknowledged, I am able 

 to recognize several forms of H. chhris, which may be admitted to 

 the rank of races or sub-species, and in most cases a clearly defined 

 geographical range aids in their recognition. Only here and there 



