tropical islands of the pacific ocean, / 



? Halcyon (Todiramphus) ? 



Sacred KhiffsJis/ieryVdr . B, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. C22. pi. 27. 

 Alcedo sacra, var. y, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 453. 



Society Islands (Ulietea). 



Halcyon (Cyanalcyon) leucopygia. B,M. 



Cyanalcyon leucopygius, Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1858, p. . 



Top of head, scapulars, and wings hlack, each feather margined 

 with deep indigo-blue ; base of lower mandible and ear-coverts deep 

 black ; tail blue-black ; under wing-coverts and the entire under 

 surface white ; tail-coverts indigo-blue ; under tail-coverts and side 

 of tail castaneous, tinged with pale purple ; thighs black ; bill and 

 feet black. 



Length 7"; wings 3" 3'". 



Solomon Islands. 



Halcyon (Actinoidhs?) jAcauiNOTi. 



Alcedo diophthalmo-riifo-ventro, Hombr. & Jacq. Ann. des Sci. 

 Nat. n. s. xvi. p. 315. 



Actenoides Homhroni, (Pr. B.) Hartl. Wiegm. Arch, fur Naturg. 

 1852, p. 130. 



Halcyon MacLeayii, (Jard. & Selby) 1 Cass. Cat. of Halcyon, p. . 



Tonga Islands (Vavao or Howe's Island). 



Note. — Quoy and Gaimard record a species of ''Martin Chas- 

 seur" as found in the Island of Vanikoro (Voy. de I'Astrol. Zool. i. 

 p. 1G2), but they have not given any description of it. 



Latham has recorded the two following birds as from the South 

 Seas Ql), which must belong to this genus, viz. : — 



Black-capped Kingsjisher, var. B, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 626. 

 Ferruyinous-bellied Kingsjisher, Lath. Hist, of B. iv. p. 34. 



Alcedo ? 



Alcedo ispida, var. Moluccana, Less. & Garn. Voy. de la Coqu. 

 Zool. i. pp. 34.3, 694. 



New Ireland (Port Praslin). 



PromeropidjE. 



Drepanis pacifica. 



Great Hook-billed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 703. 

 Certhiu pacifica, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 470; Ellis's Icon. ined. 27; 

 Vieill. (Jis. dor. t. 63 ; Levaill. Hist, de la Gucp. t. 19. 

 Vestiaria hoho, Less. 



