20 A. von Pelzeln on Birds in 



row orange-ferruginous stripe," is, as M. Finsch says, unin- 

 telligible ; and on the type there is nothing corresponding with 

 it, but a slight tinge of yellowish under the dark band over 

 the ears. Latham gives Otaheite as habitat. 



14. Halcyon sancta, Vig. et Horsf. (266.) 



Sacred King's Fisher, Phillip's Voy. New South Wales, 149, 

 t. 29 {fide Cab.) ; White, Voy. New South Wales, tab. ad. 

 pag. 193. 



Halcyon sanctus, Vig. et Horsf. ; Gould, Hand-b. B. Austr. 

 i. 128. 



Sauropatis sancta, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. 158. 



A young bird. I am not quite sure whether this is the 

 bird which was obtained from the Leverian Museum. 



15. Todiramphus veneratus, Gmel. (132.) 

 Venerated Kingfisher, Lath. Gen. Synops. i. 623. 13. 

 Alcedo venerata, Gmel. Syst. i. 453. 29 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



i. 251. 16. 



Halcyon venerata (Gmel.), Gray, Gen. 79; Pelzeln, Sitzgs- 

 ber. d. k. Akad. xx. (1856) 501 ; Ornith. Novara, 47. 



Latham's type (Sale Cat. n. 4251) is in our museum ; it is 

 marked as having been brought from the Friendly Isles (from 

 the island of Apye, as Latham says in his Synopsis) . 



TROCHILIDiE. 



16. Phaetornis superciliosus (Linne). (186.) 

 Supercilious Humming-bird, Lath. Gen. Synops. ii. 747. 

 The bird, Sale Cat. n. 6354, seems to have been the spe- 

 cimen mentioned by Latham as contained in Leverian Mu- 

 seum ; it no longer exists in the collection. 



17. Lophornis ornata (Bodd.) . (189.) 

 Hupecol, Buffon, Ois. vii. 14 ; PI. Enl. 640. 3. 

 Tufted-necked Humming-bird, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. 784, 55. 

 Trochilus auratus, Gmel. Syst. i. 497. 



Trochilus ornatus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 318, 58 ; Shaw, Mus. 

 Lever, t. 130. 



A male (from Cayenne ) , the type of Shaw's figure. 

 Latham mentions that this species was represented in the 



