Birds of CelelDes: Alcedinidae. 
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c. [Halcyon monachus pt. (1) Gray, Gen. B. I, 1846, 79 (descr. null.).] 
Monachalcyon princeps (I) Reiclib., Handb. Alced. 1851, 38, t. 425, fig. 3157; (2) Salvad., 
Ann. Mas. Civ. Gen. 1875, VIT, 653 part, (descr. of young); (3) M. & Wg., Abb. 
Mas. Dresden 1895, Nr. 8, p. 7. 
cl. Daeelo princeps pt. (1) Scbl., Mas. P.-B. Alced. 1863, 24; (II) id., Vog. Ned. Ind. Alced. 
1864, 20, 53, pi. 7, fig. 3; (3) id.. Revue Alced. 1874, 16. 
e. Monachalcyon monachus pt. (I) Sbarpe, Monogr. Alced. 1870, 255, pi. 98, fig. 3, (2) 
Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 547. 
/'. Halcyon cyanocephala (JJ Briigg., Abb. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 51. 
g. Monachalcyon cyanocephaius (1) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 60; (2) Sbarpe, Oat. B. XVII, 1892, 
295; (3) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 163. 
h. Monachalcyon cyanocephala (1) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1883, 135. 
Figures and descriptions. Reiclib. J; Scbl. d II, d 1] Sbarpe e I, g 2', Brliggem. f 1. 
Adult male. General colour above dark bistre-brown, tbe 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, tbe forebead also 
sbgbtly touched with cinnamon; neck cinnamon, tbe 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 tbe 
sides; under wing-coverts and inner webs of quills below towards their basal 
part cinnamon, tbe former marked with a few brown bars ([cf] Gorontalo, Nr. 8186). 
Bill very pale horn, darker about tbe middle of the upper mandible. 
Immature [male]. Like tbe adult male, but tbe under surface and under wng-coverts more 
broadly and plentifully barred with brown; tbe cinnamon margins to the feathers of 
tbe 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 tbe form described as tbe adult male in having a stripe of pale 
cinnamon stretcliing from tbe lores above tbe eye to tbe car-coverts and a similar 
stripe from the rictus below the eye to the ear-coverts, with a blue stripe between 
them; tbe under surface more plentifully barred. “Iris biwn; bill bom-yellow-brown; 
feet brown” (Rimukan, 9, 5. XI. 84: Platen in Mus. Nehrkorn, Nr. 916). 
An adult female in the Sarasin Collection, killed in the breeding-season, bad 
tbe “bill yellow, above greyish, also below at tbe sides; iris dark brown; feet yellow- 
grey” (Q Rurukan, 26. HI. 94, P. & F. S.). 
Young female. AVith cinnamon superciliary and malar stripes as in the adrdt female, the malar 
stripe more extended and bi’oader, the ear- coverts black, the bars on tbe breast 
narrower and more irregular. Bill shorter, blackish in colour, tip wlutisb (Q, Tomohon, 
7. VI. 94: P. &F. Sarasin). See, also, Briiggemann fl. 
Young male (just about able to fiy). Like tbe adult male — without tbe supercibary and 
malar stripes of tbe female; a little cinnamon on the lores; bill much smaller and 
shorter than in the adult and with a sbgbt book at tbe tip, terminal third yellowish 
wliite, basal part blackish born (Q, Tomohon, 27. HI. 94: P. & F. S.). 
by these authors were never pirhlished. Its distinctness was again pointed out by Dr. Brugpmann m 1876 
(f 1 ), who gave the present species Forsten’s MS. name cyanocephala, but in 1851 Eeichenbach had 
already tigiircd and described it as M. princeps from a specimen in the Dresden Museum. It appears that in 
calliog this form princeps and the foregoing species monachus Eeichenbach and Bonaparte misapplied 
Forsten’s and Temminck’s unpublished names, but this, though a little to be regretted, does not call for 
further comment. 
