Order ALCEDINIF0RME8. 
No. 385. 
Family ALCEDINIDM. 
mCRALCYONE PUSILLA. 
LITTLE KINGFISHEK. 
(Plate 333.)* 
Ceyx PUSILLA Temminck and Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 100* livr., Vol. V., pi. 595, 
1836 : Bale de Lobo, New Guinea. 
Alcyone pusilla halli Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 286, 1912 ; Cairns, North 
Queensland. 
Alcyone 'pusilla Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xi. (Vol. II., pi. 26), 1843 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 142, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1868, p. 383 (N.Q.) ; Sharp 
Monogr. Alced., p. 53, pi. 16, 1869 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, 
p. 583 (N.Q.) ; Masters, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 481, 1876 (N.Q.) ; 
Ramsay, ih., Vol. IL, p. 179, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XVII., p, 171, 1892 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Picarise, p. 21, 
1894 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 56, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. II., p. 550, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 54, 1908 ; 
Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 235, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XI., p. 24, 1911 
(N.Q.) ; MacgUlivray, ih., p. 126 (N.Q.) ; id., ih., Vol. XIIL, p. 159, 1914 (N.Q.). 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., p. 441, 1914. 
Alcyone pusilla 'pusilla Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 286 (Jan. 31st), 1912 (Cape 
York, N. Queensland). 
Alcyone pusilla halli Mathews, ih. : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Alcyone ramsayi North, Ibis (Feb. 7th), 1912, p. 119 : Port Essington, Northern Territory ; 
H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XVE., p. 219, 1917 (N.T.). 
Micralcyone pusilla pusilla Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 146, 1913. 
Micralcyone pusilla halli Mathews, ib. 
Micralcyone pusilla ramsayi Mathews, ih. 
Distribution. North Queensland (as far south as the Cairns District) : Northern 
Territory. 
Adult 'male. Head, entire back, and upper tail-coverts ultramarine-blue like the sides of 
the face, sides of breast and sides of body ; upper wing-coverts, primary- and 
secondary-quills dark brown, the median coverts and some of the outer-webs of 
the flight-quills slightly fringed with ultramarine-blue, the inner-webs of the latter 
have pale edgings ; tail also dark brown, the feathers more or less fringed with 
ultramarine-blue ; loral spot, throat, breast, abdomen, under tafl-coverts and 
under wing-coverts white or creamy-white, the last marked with brown on the 
margin of the wing ; under-surface of quills and lower aspect of tail brown. Eyes 
* The plate is lettered Micrahyont halli. 
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