﻿HALCYON DIOPS. 



(TEMMINCK'S KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo diops . . Temm. PI. Col. 272 (1842). 



Halcyon diops . . Steph. Gen. Zool. XIII, p. 99 (1826) ; Gray, Gen. of B. I, p. 79 (1846) ; 



Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 6 (1852); Gray, Handl. of B. p. 92 (1869). 

 Todiramphus diops . Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 157 (1850); Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 29, t. 



ccccxvi, fig. 3127 (1851) ; Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 8 (1852). 

 Cyanalcyon diops . Bonap. Consp. Vol. Aids. p. 9 (1854) ; Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 



158 (1860). 



Daceh diops . . Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 41 (1863) ; id. Vog. Ned. Ind. Alced. pp. 30, 60, 



pi. 12 (1864). 



H. rostro toto nigro : scapularibus viridi-cyaneis : subtus omnino alba. Fern, torque pectorali cyanea 

 distinguenda. 



Hah. in insulis "Batchian," "Gilolo," "Ternate," dictis maris moluccensis. 



Male. Entire head very deep ultramarine ; scapulars and lower portion of the back 

 rich cobalt tinged with darker blue ; wing-coverts rich ultramarine ; quills black, the inner 

 web of the primaries white at the base, the outer webs of all the feathers washed with 

 intense ultramarine; tail deep ultramarine above, black beneath; lores, a nuchal spot, collar 

 round the back of the neck and entire under surface pure white ; bill entirely black ; feet 

 dark olive-brown. 



Female. Similar to the male, but has no white collar and has a broad blue pectoral 

 band. 



Young male. Precisely similar to the old female, but the pectoral band mixed blue 

 and white. 



Hah. Batchian, Gilolo, Ternate {Bernstein, Wallace). 



The island of Celebes has been given as a habitat of the present bird, but, I believe, 

 on no reliable authority; in the same way Professor Reichenbach has stated it to be found 

 in Amboina and Timor, while the Philadelphia Museum, according to the late Mr. Cassin, 

 possesses a specimen from Ceram. I do not think any of the above localities can be 

 depended upon, and I believe the range of the present bird to be restricted to the three 

 islands mentioned above. 



