﻿HALCYON AUSTRALASIA. 



(CORONETTED KINGFISHER). 



Alcsdo australasia Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. six, p. 419 (1818); 



Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. I, p. 397 (1823); 



Pucher. Eev. et Mag. de Zool. v, p. 389 (1853). 



Halcyon australasicc Gray, Handl. of B. I, p. 93 (1869). 



Sauropatk australasia; ..... Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 161 (1860). 

 Halcyon coronata Mull. Verh. Nat. Gesch. I, p. 175 (1839) ; Gray, Gen. 



of B. I, p. 79 (1846) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484. 

 Todirhamphus coronatus . .... 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. 218, 



pi. xix (1858). 



Paralcyon coronata Eeich. Handb. Alced. p. 35, t. ccccxxi, fig. 3142 (1851). 



H. rostro nigro, mandibula ad basin fulvescente : pileo medio viridi: collo postico cinnamomino : minor: 

 coloribus saturatioribus. 



Hab. In insulis "Timor" "Lombock" dictis. 



Crown of the head green ; forehead and a broad band encircling the head deep 

 cinnamon ; below this cincture another line extending from each eye round the back of the 

 neck black, tinged with dark green ; a collar round the back of the neck rich cinnamon ; 

 back and scapulars green, rather duller on the former, and both indistinctly waved with 

 obscure bands in certain lights ; lower part of the back, rump and upper tail-coverts bright 

 blue ; wing-coverts very bright blue ; quills black, fulvous at the base, externally broadly 

 washed with greenish blue ; tail blue above, greyish black beneath ; under surface rich 

 cinnamon, paler on the throat which inclines to white ; bill black, yellow at the base of the 

 lower mandible ; feet reddish brown. Total length 75 inches, of bill from front 1*5, from 

 gape 2'0, wing 3*4, tail 20, tarsus 0'45, middle toe 0"5, hind toe - 35. 



Hab. Timor {Mi'dler, Wallace), Lombock ( Wallace). 



This elegant species is very similar to the Cinnamon Kingfisher {Halcyon cinnamomino) , 

 of which it is a diminutive form. The colours are very similar, and M. Juki's Yerrcaux 

 informs me, that as in the last named bird, the plumage is subject to great variation ; it is, 

 however, a distinct species, much smaller in size and more richly coloured. Its range seems 



