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Synonyms : — 



Eu7-ystoinus australis Swaiusoii, Anim, in Menag. 1837, p. 320: 



New South Wales. 

 Etiri/stomus australis Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 96. 



Range : New Zealand (accidental visitor, few occurrences) ; 

 extraliniital. 



Family ALCEDIXID^. 



Genus SAUKOPATIS, 



Sauropatis Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. vol. ii. 18G0, 

 p. 152. 



Type (by subsequent designation) : S. sanctas (Vigors & 

 Horsfield). 



Sauropatis sanctus vagans (Lesson). North Island King- 

 fisher. 

 Alcedo vagans Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, Zool. vol. i. 

 1830, p. 694 : Bay of Islands, North Island. 



Synonyms : — 



'} Halcyon norfolkiensis Tristram, Ibis, 1885, p. 49: Norfolk 



Island. 

 Halcyon vagans Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 97 (part). 



Range : — North Island (breeding) ; Kerniedcc Group 

 (breeding) ; ? Norfolk Island (breeding) ; Lord Howe 

 Island (breeding). 



Sauropatis sanctus forsteri, subsp, n. South Island King- 

 fisher. 



Synonyms :-^ 



Alcedo cynnea (not of Vieillc^it 1818) Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. 

 Licht. 1844, p. 76 : Dusky Sound, South Island. 



Halcyon vayans Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 97 (part), [The type- 

 locality oi Halcyon sanctus Vigors & Horstield, Trans, Linn. Soc, 

 Lond. vol. XV, 1826, p. 206, is New South Wales.] 



Range : — South Island (breeding). 



Note : — Differs from S. s. vayans in its longer and 

 narrower bill. Type in the British Museum, 



