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from before and through the eye to the occiput, bright fulvous, inclining 

 to rufous; another from the base of the bill, under the eye, around the 

 back of the neck, black, tinged with greenish-blue under the eye ; 

 below which black band is another on the upper part of the back of 

 bright fulvous, uniting with the same color of the under parts of the 

 body. Throat paler and nearly white in some specimens. Frontal 

 feathers edged with fulvous. Upper mandible dark; under mandible 

 white, with the tip obscure brown. 



Hab. — Timor. Specimen in Mus. Acad. Philadelphia. 



The parts which are frequently of various shades of buff or sienna 

 in several other species of this genus, in the present bird are of a much 

 deeper color, in fact, bright rufous, darker on the bands of the occiput 

 and neck, and paler on the under parts of the body. This species is 

 strongly characterized by the wide occipital band of rufous, and pre- 

 sents, when viewed from behind, three wide and very distinct bands 

 on the occiput, neck, and upper part of the back, two of bright rufous 

 with one intermediate of black. 



This bird approaches the genus HaJcijon, in which it might be 

 arranged with nearly equal propriety as in Todimmj>hus. Two speci- 

 mens only are in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy, both 

 labelled as males, from Timor, and differing in no important character. 

 We insert the name Alcedo aastralasia, Vieill., as a synonyme for this 

 species, on the authority of Dr. Pucheran, an eminent naturalist of 

 Paris, who has rendered essential service in Ornithology, by determin- 

 ing many obscure types from original specimens. His notice of this 

 bird is in Guerin's Magazine, 1853, p. 389. As he observes, Vieillot's 

 name ought not to be adopted, because it conveys an absolute error, 

 though having priority. 



This bird is represented in our plate of the size of life. 



13. TODIRAMPHUS CINNAMOMINUS (Swainsou) . 



Halcyon cinnamominus, SWAINS. Zool. 111. II, p. 1 (1821). 

 '■^ Ducdo rrtficcps, Cuv." Label on spec, in Kivoli coll. (Mus. Acad. Philad.) 

 ''JDaceh rvjiceps, Cuv. Gal. du Mus." Lesson, Traite, p. 247 (1881)? 

 ''Alcedo rvficeps, Cuv." Duinont, Diet. Sci. Nat. XXIX, p. 273 (1823)? 

 Todiramphus Ecichenhachii, Hartlaub, Weigm. Archiv. 1852, p. 21? 



