100 BLUE-COLLARED KINGHUNTER. 
unworthy either of reference or of quotation. This 
may appear undeserved censure, but every one who 
practically knows the state of specific ornithology, 
will he too well aware of its justness. 
Having expended several hours in an attempt to 
clear up the synonymes of the species before us, we 
gave up the task, and omit them altogether; ob- 
serving only that the Senegalemis of Vieillot is an 
imaginary species, compounded of this bird and the 
last! while to the true Senegalensis he gives the 
name of cinerefrons. 
In size our Halcyon torquatus is larger than Sene- 
galensis, to w r hich it has, however, a general resem- 
blance in the colours of the bill, and in some parts 
of the upper plumage. It is immediately distin- 
tinguished, however, from that bird by its red feet 
and broad blue breast band. The head is of a full 
and clear brown, and not light grey ; this brown 
colour ends abruptly, and does not, as in Senegal- 
ensis, blend into the blue of the back. The ears are 
blue, margined above by a narrow black line ; the 
chin, throat, and lower half of the body is pure 
white; the wrings are much like those of Senegal- 
ensis, they are deep black, but their margins, together 
with the middle of the greater, and nearly the whole 
of the lesser quills (externally), are shining blue ; the 
tertial quills, which in Senegalensis are llue, are in 
this Hack ; there is no white line over the eye ; and 
the feet are red. 
Total length, 10 inches ; hill from the gape, 2h ; 
front, 2 ; wings, 4/ 5 ; tail, base, 3i% ; tarsi, 
