﻿HALCYON ALBIOILLA. 



(WHITE AND GREEN KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo albicilla 

 Alcedo albicilla 



Dacelo albicilla 



Halcyon albicilla 



TodirMmphus albicilla 

 Halcyon saurophaya 

 Todirhamphus saurophagus 



Cuv. MS. undL 



Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. XXIX, p. 273 (1823) ; Pucher. Rev. Zool. 1853, 



p. 388 ; Cass. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 225 (1858). 

 Less. Traited'Orn. p. 247 (1831); ScM. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 42 (1863); 



id. Vog. Ned. Ind. pp. 32, 61, pi. 11 (1864). 

 Gray, Gen. of B. I, p. 79 (1846); id. Cat. Piss. Brit. Mus. p. 56 (1848); 



Scl. Proc. Linn. Soc. 1858, p. 156 ; Gray. B. Trop. Isl. Pacif. Oe. p. 5 



(1859) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 153 ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 433; Hartl. 



P. Z. S. 1867, p. 829; Hartl. & Finsch, P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 4, 118 ; Gray, 



Handl. of B. I, p. 93 (1869) ; Gray, Ann. Nat. Bust. 1870, p. 329. 

 Reich. Handb .Alced. p. 30, t. cccxviii, figs. 3134-35 (1851); Bonap. Consp. 



Yol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). 

 Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 103; id. Voy. Sulphur, p. 33, pi. 10 (1844); Gray, 



Handl. of B. I, p. 93 (1869). 

 Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 157 (1850); Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 11 



(1852); Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854); Cass. U. S. Expl. 



Exp. p. 213 (1858). 



Tanatich of the Natives of the Pelew Islands (HartlaubJ. 



H. rostro nigro, mandibula versus basin nigricante : pileo toto colloque pure albis, lined stricta pone 

 oculos nigricanti-viridi. 



Hah in sub-regione Austro-Malayana. 



Adult. Entire head, neck, upper portion of the back pure white ; middle of the back 

 and scapulars dull green, lower portion of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright 

 cobalt ; wing-coverts dull cobalt tinged with green ; quills black, externally edged, 

 especially on the secondaries, with cobalt ; tail dull cobalt above, greyish black beneath ; 

 lores dusky; feathers round the eye black, with a line of greenish feathers extending from 

 the eye over the ear-coverts. 



Young. Upper surface of the body blueish green, duller on the interscapulary region 

 and brighter on the rump, where it inclines to cobalt ; a small loral spot, a nuchal spot, a 

 broad collar encircling the neck, and the entire under surface of the body pure white ; bill 

 black, yellowish at the base of the lower mandible ; feet olive-brown. 



