Order ALGEDINIFORMES. 
No. 392. 
Family DACELONIDM. 
SAUROPATIS SORDIDA. 
MANGROVE KINGFISHER. 
(Plate 340.) 
Halcyon sordidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 75 : North coast of 
Australia (Cape York). 
Halcyon sordidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 75 ; id.. Birds Austr,, pt. 32 
(Vol. II., pi. 23), 1848; Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. 21, 1870; Sharpe, Monogr. 
Alced., p. 233, pi. 88, 1870 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IL, p. 179, 1878 ; 
Sharpe, Zool. Rep. Alert, p. 24, 1884 (N.T.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 3, 1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XVII., p. 278, 1892 ; North, Proc. 
Liim. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. VII., p. 395, 1892 (Q.) ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Alced., 
p. 11, 1894; Hall, Key Austr. Birds, p. 57, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 560, 1901 ; id., Emu, Vol. I., p. 25, 1901 (N.W.A.) ; 
Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 96, 1903 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 65, 
1908 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 63, 1908 (N.A.) ; Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 236, 
1910 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 24, 1911 (N.Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 376, 1909 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 152, 
1913 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 160, 1914 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. 
XVI., p. 220, 1917 (N.T.) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 17, 1917 (N.Q.). 
Todiramphus sordidus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 157, 1850 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 132, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 582 
(Q.) ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 47, 1875 (N.Q.) ; id., ib., Vol. II., 
p. 270, 1878 (N.T.). 
Sauropatis sordida Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., Vol. II., p. 159, 1860. 
Halcyon sordidus sordidus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 289, 1912. 
Halcyon sordidus cooUowni Mathews, ib. : Cooktown, North Queensland. 
Halcyon sordidus melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 38, 1912 : Melville 
Island. Montague, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1914, p. 633 ; Monte Bello Islands, #.A. 
Sauropatis sordida sordida Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 149, 1913. 
Sauropatis sordida melvillensis Mathews, ib., p. 150. 
Sauropatis sordida coZcZottgfAi Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 61, Feb. 22, 
1916 ; Mud Island, near Brisbane, Queensland. 
Distribution. Northern Australia, as far south as Brisbane on the east coast, and 
Point Cloates on the west coast. 
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