﻿HALCYON SACRA. 



(WHITE-BROWED KINGFISHER.) 



Sacred Kingfisher .... Lath. Gen. Syn. I, p. 621, cum var. A (1772). 

 Alcedo sacra ..... Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 453, cum var. A (1788, ex Lath.) ; Bonn, et 



Vieffl. Enc. Meth. I, p. 294 (1823). 



Alcedo sacra Lath. Ind. Om. I, p. 250 cum var. B (1790). 



Halcyon sacra Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centr. Polyn. p. 32 (1867) ; Gray, 



Handl. of B. p. 92 (1869). 

 Todirhamphus saccr (pt.) . . . Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 156; Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. 



p. 10 (1852). 



Alcedo collaris, var. 1,2. . . Forst. Descr. Aniin. p. 163 (1841). 



Dacelo coronata .... Peale, TJ. S. Expl. Exp. p. 156, pi. 160 (1848) ; Hartl. Archiv. 



f. Naturg. 1852, p. 111. 

 Halcyon coronata .... Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacif. Oc. p. 5 (1859). 

 Dacelo all if rons .... Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 156, pi. 144 (1848) ; Hartl. Archiv. 



f. Naturg. 1852, p. 110. 



Dacelo vitiensis .... Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 156, pi. 144 (1848) ; Hartl. Archiv. 



f. Naturg. 1852, p. 110. 

 Todirhamphus vitiensis . . . Cass. U. S. Expl. Exp. pp. 195, 209 ; pi. xvi (1858). 

 Halcyon vitiensis .... Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacif. Oc. p. 5 (1859) ; id. Handl. of B. 



I, p. 93 (1869). 



Halcyon superciliosa .... Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 56 (1848, descr. nulla) ; id. Handl. 



of B. I, p. 92 (1869). 



Sauropatis stip'-rciliosa . . . Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 158 (1860). 

 Todirhamphus tuta (pt.) . . . Cass. TJ. S. Expl. Exp. pp. 192, 206, pi. xv, figs. 1, 2 (1858). 

 Halcyon cassini .... Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centr. Polyn. p. 38 (1867). 

 Halcyon pealei .... Finsch & Hartl. Faun. Centr. Polyn. p. 40 (1867). 



H. rostro nigro, mandibula versus basin flavicante : uropygio viridi-cyaneo : pilco cum dorso toto, viridi- 

 cyaneis : collo postico albo : capitis lateribus late albis. 



Hab. in Oceania. 



Very old. Head and neck white, with a few green feathers in the centre of the crown, 

 and a line of black feathers slightly tinged with green from the eye enclosing the ear-coverts 

 and encircling the neck ; back and scapulars dull green ; wing-coverts bright green tinned 

 with blue; quills black, white at the base of the inner web, and externally edged with blue; 



