RUFOUS VENTED kinghunter. 103 
rufous : tail rounded ; the tertials are glossed with 
blue ; and there is a dusky spot before the eye. 
Total length, 8f or 9 inches ; bill, from the front, 
1 t 6 3 ; wings, 4 ; tail beyond, 1| ; ditto from the 
base, 3. 
LITTLE RUFOUS-CHEEKED KINGHUNTER. 
Halcyon cyanotis , Swains. 
Sides of the head, cars, and neck, rufous, glossed with purple 
violet ; crown of the head and nape, black, with transverse 
blue spots ; chin and throat white ; breast and body be- 
neath orange rufous ; bill and feet red. 
Todier de Jiuda, PI. Ed. 783, fig. 1 Todier bleu a ventre 
rouge, Bttffon Todus eicruleus Blue Tody of authors. 
This superb little species may be called the gem of 
the family, both from its diminutive size and its 
exceeding richness of colouring. It has, as usual, 
been placed as a variety of another by our systema- 
tists, who at first called it a fly-catcher ( Todus) and 
then one of the four “ varieties” of their Alcedo 
cceruleocephala. To the modem ornithologist it is a 
very interesting species, since it possesses the broad 
bill of Halcyon and more syndactile feet of Alcedo. 
The outer toe is only disconnected from the middle 
toe at its terminal joint, and there are no apparent 
scales either upon the tarsus or the toes ; the tail is 
