Order ALCEDINIFORMES. Family DACELONID^. 
No. 386. 
SYMA TOROTORO. 
YELLOW-BILLED KINGFISHER. 
(Plate 334.)* 
Syma TOROTORO Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. Ferussac, Vol. XI., p. 443, 1827 : Dorey, New 
Guinea. 
Halcyon {Syma?) flavirostris Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornitli.,1860, p. 106 : Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Halcyon {Syma ?) flavirostris Gould, in Jardine’s Contr, Ornith., 1850, p. 105 ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1850, p. 200, 1852. 
Halcyon flavirostris Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 5, 1851. 
Syma flavirostris Reichenbach, Handb. Alcedinidae, p. 44, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 135, 1866 ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced., p. 153, pi. 56, 1869 ; 
Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 47, 1875 (N.Q.) ; Ramsay, ib., 
Vol. II., p. 179, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XVII., p. 197, 1892 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Picarise, p. 15, 1894 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 57, 1899 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. VI., p. 427, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 550, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 54, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 357, 1909 ; 
Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 24, 1911 ; MacgiUivray, ih., Vol. XIII., p. 169, 1914. 
Syma torotoro flavirostris Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. VIII., p. 143, 1901 ; 
Mathews, ih., Vol. XVIII., p. 286, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 146, 1913. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cape York). 
Adult male. Head, liind-neck, mantle, sides of face, side of neck cinnamon rufous ; 
breast, sides of body and under tad-coverts similar but paler ; throat and middle 
of abdomen white tinged with cinnamon-buff ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
pale cinnamon-buff ; quills below brown with buff inner margins ; lower aspect 
of tail pale brown ; the space in front, above, and below the eye black ; a black 
line on each side of the nape ; a broader band of black on the upper back skirting 
the cinnamon-rufous on the mantle and extending on to the marginal lesser upper 
wing-coverts ; remainder of the upper wing-coverts, scapulars and outer aspect 
of the flight-quills oil-green, rather darker on the scapulars ; inner-webs of 
flight-quiUs dark brown with buff edgings ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts 
* The Plate is lettered Syma flavirostris 
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