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Birds of Celebes: Alcedinidae. 
We have paid great attention to this species and have before us at this 
moment a series of 80 skins from the Celebesian area alone, not to speak of 
a great number of others which have passed through our hands in the last 
few years, yet we do not feel able to say anything about it, except that it 
varies individually in the same localities to a very great extent, both in size, 
in the size and form of the bill, in the different shades of blue and green of 
the upjaer surface, and in the presence or absence of bars on the under sur- 
face; moreover, as soon as the bird can fly, it wears the adult dress and even 
experienced ornithologists might take such, before they are full grown, for a 
smaller species or subspecies. 
The typical Halcyon chloris, 
a. Alcedo chloris (1) Bodcl., Tabl. PL Enl. 1873, p. 49; (2) Rosenb., Malay. Arcbip. 
1878, 272. 
b. Alcedo collaris (Scop.), (I) Kittl., Kupf ert. Vbg. 1833, I, 10, pi. 14, fig. I., 
c. Halcyon collaris fl) Swains., Zool. Illustr. 1820, I, pi. 27. 
d. Halcyon chloris (.1) Gray, Gen. B. 1846, I, 79; (II) Sharpe, Monogr. Alcedin. 1870, 229, 
pi. 87; (3) Hume & Davison, Str. F. 1873, I, 451; (4) Briiggem., Abb. Ver. 
Bremen 1876, V, 53; (5) Lenz, J. f. 0. 1877, 367; (6) Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, 332; 
(7) Everett, J. Str. Br. R. A. S. 1889, 161; (8) Whitehead, Ibis 1890, 45; (9) 
Steere, List Coll. B. Philipp. Is. 1890, 11; (X) Sharpe, Cat. B. XVH, 1892, 273, 
pi. YII, fig. 3; (11) Biitt, Zool. Erg. Weber’s Reise in Ost-Ind. 1893, PH, 275; 
(12) M. & Wg. , J. f. 0. 1894, 242; (13) Stiider, Gazelle-Reise 1889, IH, 198; (14) 
Hartert, Orais 1891, 121; (lo) Bourns & Worces, B. Menage Exp. 1894, 34; 
(16) Vorderin., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, LIV, 335; (17) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1895, 474; 
(18) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 7; (19) iid., ib. Nr. 9, p. 3; 
(20) iid., ib. 1896, Ni\ 1, p. 8; (21) iid., ib. Nr. 2, p. 12; (22) Bilttik., Notes 
Leyden Mus. 1896, XYHI, 172; (23) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 158, 175, 562, 571, 
586, 595; (24) id., ib. 1897, 158; (XXV) Yleycr, Yogolskel. 1897, pi. CCXYI. 
e. Halcyon forsteni Bp., Consp. 1850, 157 (ex Temm. MS.); (2) Gray, HL. 1869, I, 93; 
(III) Sharpe, Monogr. Alcedin. 1870, 235, ])1. 89; (4) id., Cat. B. XYII, 1892, 279. 
f. Todiramphus forsteni (1) Reichb., Hb. sjiec. Orn., Alcedin. 1851, 30. 
g. Cyanalcyon forsteni (1) Bp., Consp. Vol. Anisod. 1854, 9, Nr. 313. 
h. Dacelo forsteni (1) ScliL, Mus. P.-B. Alced. 1863, 37; (II) id.. Yog. Ned. Ind. Alced. 1864, 
29, 60, pi. XI, f, 1; (3) Einsch, Nou Guinea 1865, 161. 
i. Sauropatis forsteni (1) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, YHI, 44; (2) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 62. 
j. Todiramphus collaris (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1862, 3^8. 
k. Sauropatis chloris (1) Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. 1860, II, 160; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 
1872, YIH, 44; (3) Salvad., Cat. Ucc, Borneo 1874, 103; (4) id., Ann. Mus. Civ. 
Gen. 1875, YU, 653; 1876, IX, 53; (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 61, 146; (6) Salvad., 
Orn. Pap. 1880, I, 470; (7)W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 135; (8) Kuttcr, ib. 1882, 171; 
1883, 301; Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 6, 19; (10) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 256, 
504, 547, 568; (11) W. BUs. , Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1885, 244; 1886, 90; (12) id., Ornis 
1888, 307, 573; (13) Salvad., Om. Pap., Agg. 1889, I, 57; (14) Hickson, Nat. in 
N. Celebes 1889, 90. 
l. Dacelo chloris (1) Schl., Mus. P.-B. Alcedin. 1863, 32; (TI) id.. Yog. Ned. Ind. Alcedin. 
1864, 26, 58, pi. X, f. 3, 4; (3) id.. Rev. Acc. 1874, 21. 
