Birds of Celebes: Alcedinidae, 
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c. [Halcyon monachus pt. (1) Gray, Gen. B. I, 1846, 79 (descr. null.).] 
Monachalcyon princeps (I) Reichb. , Haiidb. Alced. 1851, 38, t. 425, fig. 3157; (2) Salvad., 
Ann. Mns. Civ. Gen. 1875, VII, 653 part, (descr. of young); (3) M. & Wg., Abb. 
Mus. Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 7. 
d. Dacelo princeps pt. (1) ScbL, Mus. P.-B. Alced. 1863, 24; (II) id., Vog. Ned. Ind. Alced. 
1864, 20, 53, pi. 7, fig. 3; (3) id., Eevue Alced. 1874, 16. 
e. Monachalcyon monachus pt. (I) Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. 1870, 255, pi. 98, fig. 3; (2) 
Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 547. 
f. Halcyon cyanocephala (1) Brugg., Abb. Yer. Bremen 1876, V, 51. 
g. Monachalcyon cyanocephalus (1) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 60; (2) Sharpe, Cat. B. XVII, 1892, 
295; (3) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 163. 
/^. Monachalcyon cyanocephala (1) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 135. 
Figures and descriptions. Beichb. J; Scbl. d II^ d 1\ Sharpe e 7, g 2\ Brilggem. f 1. 
Adult male. General colour above dark bistre-brown, the mantle, wing-coverts, scapulars 
and upper tail-coverts terminally bordered with cinnamon; entire bead and nape, 
ear- coverts, and malar region, cyanine-blue; lores cinnamon, the forehead also 
slightly touched with cinnamon; neck cinnamon, the feathers crossed with a sub- 
terminal bar of dusky, the colour of their basal parts; under parts white, washed 
with cinnamon on breast, sides and under tail-coverts, and crossed from the upper 
chest downwards with somewhat broad brace-shaped bars of brown, broadest on the 
sides; under wing-coverts and inner webs of quills below towards their basal 
part cinnamon, the former marked with a few brown bars ([(T’] Gorontalo, Nr. 8186). 
Bill very pale born, darker about the middle of the upper mandible. 
Immature [male]. Like the adult male, but the under surface and under wing-coverts more 
broadly and plentifully barred with brown; the cinnamon margins to the feathers of 
the upper surface of a more rufous cinnamon tint and preceded by a subterminal 
dusky line passing into the brown of the back (Gorontalo, Nr. 8185). 
Adult female. Differs from the form described as the adult male in having a stripe of pale 
cinnamon stretching from the lores above the eye to the ear-coverts and a similar 
stripe from the rictus below the eye to the ear-coverts, with a blue stripe between 
them; the under surface more plentifully barred. “Iris brown; bill horn-yellow-brown; 
feet brown” (Burukan, Q, 5. XI. 84: Platen in Mus. Nebrkorn, Nr. 916). 
An adult female in the Sarasin Collection, killed in the breeding-season, had 
the “bill yellow, above greyish, also below at the sides; iris dark brown; feet yellow- 
grey” (Q Burukan, 26. HI. 94, P. & P. S.). 
Young female. With cinnamon superciliary and malar stripes as in the adult female, the malar 
stripe more extended and broader, the ear- coverts black, the bars on the breast 
narrower and more irregular. Bill shorter, blackish in colour, tip whitish ( $ , Tomohon, 
7. VI. 94: P. & P. Sarasin). See, also, Briiggemann f 1. 
Young male (just about able to fly). Like the adult male — without the superciliary and 
• malar stripes of the female; a little cinnamon on the lores; bill much smaller and 
shorter than in the adult and with a slight hook at the tip, terminal third yellowish 
white, basal part blackish born (Q, Tomohon, 27. III. 94: P. & P. S.). 
by these authors were never published. Its distinctness was again pointed out by Dr. Briiggemann in 1876 
(f IJ, who gave the present species Forsten’s MS. name cyanocephala, but in 1851 Reichenbach had 
already figured and described it as M. princeps from a specimen in the Dresden Museum. It appears that in 
calling this iorm princeps and the foregoing species monachus Reichenbach and Bonaparte misapplied 
Forsten’s and Temminck’s unpublished names, but this, though a little to be regretted, does not call for 
further comment. 
