﻿HALCYON MACLEAYI 



(MACLEAY'S KINGFISHER.) 



Halcyon macleayii 

 Todiramplius macleayi 

 Cyanalcyon macleayi 

 'Dacelo macleayi . 

 Halcyon incinctus 

 Halcyon jaquinoti 

 Halcyon sancta 



Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. pi. 101. 



Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 157 (1850). 



Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). 



Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 41 (1863). 



Gould, P.Z.S. 1837, p. 142. 



Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacif. Oc. p. 7 (1859). 



Diggles, Orn. of Austr. part 2 (1868, plate only). 



H. pileo saturate ultramarino : scapularibus lsete viridi-cyaneis : subtus omnino alba : 

 mandibula ad basin late flavicante. Fern, mari omnino similis, sed torque collari albo nullo. 



rostro nijiro, 



Hah. in Australasia. 



Male. Head deep ultramarine ; upper part of the back and scapulars bright cobalt 

 tinged with green in some lights ; lower part of the back and rump rich cobalt ; wing- 

 coverts ultramarine, the innermost ones inclining to cobalt ; quills black, the inner web 

 whitish at the base, the outer web washed with blue; tail deep ultramarine above, greyish- 

 black beneath ; lores, a nuchal spot, a collar encircling the back of the neck and entire 

 under surface white, inclining to fulvous on the flanks ; bill black, the lower mandible 

 yellowish at the base; feet dark reddish brown. Total length 7*3 inches, of bill from front 

 1'5, from gape 1*9, wing 3'7, tail 2*5, tarsus 0*4, middle toe 0'6, hind toe 0*35. 



Female. Similar to the male, but has no collar round the neck and the nuchal spot 

 very small, sometimes almost indistinguishable, being only represented by a single whitish 

 feather ; the deep blue of the head extends further than in the male, down on to the black. 



Young male. Similar to the old male, but has the colours much duller and the blues 

 shaded strongly with green ; the secondaries plainly tipped with greyish ; the lores, nuchal 

 spot, collar round the neck and entire breast strongly tinged with rust-colour ; a few of 

 the frontal feathers also edged with rusty. 



Additional references. — Halcyon macltayi, Gray, Gen. of B. I, p. 79 (1846); id. Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 

 58 (1848) ; Gould, B. of Austr. II, pi. 24 (1848); id. Intr. B. of Austr. p. 29 (1848) ; Reich. Yog. Neuholl. p. 

 34 (1850); Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. (1852) ; Macgill. Voy. Kattl. II, p. 356 (1852); Gray, P.Z.S. 1858, 

 p. 190 ; id. Cat. Maram. & B. of N. Gum. p. 55 (1858) ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1805, p. 84; Diggles, Orn. of Austr. pt. 

 2 (1868); Gray, Handl. of B. I, p. 92 (1869). Todiramphua macleayi, Reich. Handb. Aleed. ]>. 29, t. cceoxvi, 

 fig. 3124-25. Cyanalcyon macleayi, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 158 (1860) ; Gould, B. of Austr. I, p. 

 133 (1865). 



