16. HALCYON. 279 



Sharpe, To//. TI.M.S. 'Alert; p. 24 (1884); i?awsffy, Tab. List 



Austr. B. p'. 3 (1888). 

 Todirhamphus sordidus, Bp. Consjj. i. p. 157 (1850) ; Rekhenh. 



Handb., Alced. p. 32, Taf. 419. figs. 3136-37 (1851) ; Cass. Cat. 



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



p. 9 (1854) ; Cass. U.S. E.ipl. Exped. p. 212 (1858) ; Gould, Handb. 



B. Austr. i. p. 132 (1865) ; Masters, Proc. Lin7i. Soc. N. S. W. i. 



p. 47 (1876) ; id. op. cit. ii. p 270 (1877 : Port Darwin). 

 Halcyon sordida, var., Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 172. 

 Sauiopatis sordida, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 59 (1860). 

 Sauropatis grayi, iid. t. c. p. 59 (1860). 

 Halcyon grayi, Gray, Hund-l. B. i. p. 92, no. 1115 (1869). 



Adult male. Similar to //. Moris, but ot' a dusky olive-green on 

 the head, mantle, scapulars, and back ; the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts more greenish blue ; wing-coverts like the mantle, 

 but the greater coverts and outer aspect of the quiUs deep ultra- 

 marine-blue ; tail also blue ; a small loral .spot of white, but uo trace 

 of a white eyebrow ; eyelid black, with a small white spot below 

 the eye ; sides of face and ear-coverts black, faintly washed with 

 olive-green ; sides of body white, with a black patch on the sides of 

 the upper breast ; round the hind neck a broad white collar, sepa- 

 rated from the crown by a line of black ; the upper mantle also 

 divided from the white collar by a blackish shade : a concealed occi- 

 pital spot of white : " upper mandible and tip of lower oue black, 

 the base of the latter fleshy white." Total length 1 inches, culmen 

 2-4, wing 4'4, tail 3, tarsus 0-6. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having dusky fringes to the 

 feathers of the sides of the face, hind neck, and under surface of 

 body. 



Hah. North-eastern and Northern Australia, the Louisiade 

 Islands, and the Aru Islands. 



a-c. Ad. sk. Moreton Bay, Queensland (F. Gould Coll. 



Stranr/e). 



d, e. Ad. et Moreton Bay {Sharpe Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



imm. sk. 



/-/. Ad. et imm. Cape York (.7. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. 



k. Ad. sk. Port Darwin, Nov. {Dr. Cop- Voy. of H.M.S. 



ptinqer). ' Alert.' 



/, m. d' $ nd. sk. Hope'lslauds, July 19 {J. Mac- Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



yillivray). 



n. J ad. j;k. Louisiade Islands, July 26. J. Macgillivray [C.]. 



(j,j!j. Ad.etjuv.sk. Aru Islands (yl. 7?. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



q. $ ad. sk. Dobbo, Aru Islands. Voy. of H.M.S. 



' Challenger.' 



4-5. Halcyon forsteni. 



Halcyon forsteni, Bj). Consp. i. p. 157 (1850 ; e.v Temm. MSS.) ; Grai/, 



Hund-l. B. i. p. 93, no. 1128 (1869) ; Sharp)e, Monogr. Alced. 



p. 235, pi. 89 (1870). 

 Dacelo forsteni, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 37 ( 1863) ; id. Vni/. 



Nederl. Lid., AlcL'd. pp. 29, 60, pi, 11. tig. 1 (1864); id. Rerue, 



Alced, p. 23 (1874). 

 Sauropatis forsteni, Wald. Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 44 (1872). 



