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GENUS CITTURA Kanp. 
This genus is peculiar to the Celebes Province. Size medium; the bill very- 
broad and flat, much broader than deep, in length from the nostril twice its 
width or less (in C. sangirensis sometimes a little more), in colour red when 
adult; the tail is long, about 3 times the length of the bill, strongly graduated, 
the outermost feathers little more than half the length of the tail; the tarsus 
is scarcely shorter than the middle toe without the claw; the P* primary is 
about equal to the secondaries, the 3"^, P’' and 5^^ the longest. Two species. 
Sexes slightly different. 
P * 95. CITTURA CYANOTIS (T emm.). 
Broad-billed Kingflsher. 
a. Dacelo cyanotis (I) Temm., PI. Col. pi. 262, 1824 (Sumatra!); (2) Less., Tr. d’Orn. 1831, 
248 (Sumatra!); (S) Gray, Gen. B. 1846, I, 78; (4) id.. List Fissirostr. Brit. Mus. 
1848, 52; (5) Bp., Oonsp. 1850, I, 154; (6) id., Oonsp. Vol. Anisod. 1854, 9, Nr. 113; 
(7) Wall., Ibis 1860, 142; (8) Scbl., Mus. P.-B. 1863, 22; (IX) id.. Yog. Ned. 
Indie, Alced. 1864, 18, 51, pi. 6, fig. 1, 2; (10) Pinsch, Neu Guinea 1866, 160; (11) 
Gray, HL. 1869, I, 89; (12) Schl, Rev. Alcedin. 1874, 14; (13) Rosenb., Malay. 
Archip. 1878, 271. 
Cittura cyanotis (1) Kaup, Verb. nat. hist. Yer. Hessen 1848, 68 (Familie d. Eisvogel 8); 
(II) Reichb., Hb. spec. Orn. Alcedin. 1851, 38, t. 429, f. 3170; (HI) Sharpe, 
Monogr. Alcedin. 1868, pp. XX, XXXYH, 301, pi. 119; (4) Wall., Malay Archip. 
1869, I, 413; (5) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, YHI, 44; (6) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. 
1875, YH, 654; (7) Bruggem., Abh. Yer. Bremen 1876, Y, 54; (8) Lenz, J. f. O. 
1877, 368; (IX) Rowley, Orn. Misc. 1878, HI, 131 — 143, pi. XOIX; (10) Meyer, 
1. c. remarks; (11) id.. Ibis 1879, 63; (12) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 136; (13) Meyer, 
Isis, Dresden 1884, 19; (14) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 548; (15) W. Blas., Ztschr. 
ges. Orn. 1886, HI, 90; (16) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 95; (17) Heine & Rchw., 
Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 1890, 168; (18) Sharpe, Cat. B. XYH, 1892, 292; (19) M. 
& Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 7; (20) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 2, p. 13; (21) 
Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 163. 
“Kikis talun”, Minahassa, Alfurous name, Meyer 70, 11. 
“Radja udang utan”, Malay near Manado, Nat. Coll. 
“Bulu bebek”, Minahassa, Guillem. 14. 
“Bukaka memejang”, Tonkean, E. Celebes, Nat. Coll. 
Figures and descriptions. Temminck a J; Schlegel a IX\ Sharpe III ((^f), 7S; Rowley 
JA(2); Reichb., II\ Salvad. 6\ Briiggemann 7; Lenz 8\ Meyer 70; W. Bla- 
sius 15. 
Adult male. General colour above raw umber washed with olive, becoming buff on the outer 
webs of the scapulars, hazel-chestnut on the rump and tail, and washed with orange- 
rufous on the head above and nape; a narrow line above and below the eye, 
continuous with a broad stripe on the sides of the occiput, dark marine-blue; 
the tips of the feathers of the supraorbital region, continued above the blue stripe, 
ochraceous buff, the bases dark blue, dusky black at the extreme base; wing- coverts 
dark marine-blue, where concealed by the scapulars black, quills dusky, the inner 
