Order ALCEDJNIFOBMES. 
Family DACEWNIDM. 
No. 393. 
URALCYON SYLVIA. 
WHITE-TAILED KINGFISHER. 
(Plate 341.) 
Tanysipteea SYLVIA Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. 105* Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Tanysiptera sylvia Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. 105 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc, 
(Lond.), 1850, p. 200, 1851; id.. Birds Austr., Suppl. pt. i. (pi. 6), 1851 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 137, 1865 ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 325 ; Biggies, Ornith. 
Austr., pt. XIV., 1867 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 383 ; Sharpe,- 
Monogr. Alced., p. 259, pi. 100, 1869 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 179, 1888 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; Sharpe, Cat, Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. XVII., p. 300, 1892 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Alced., p. 16, 1894 ; Le Souef, 
Ibis, 1898, p. 65 (Q.) ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 58, 1899; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 561, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 66, 
1908 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 235, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XI., p. 24, 
1911 (N.Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 377, 1909 ; Witmer 
Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 152, 1913; MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., 
p. 161, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Uralcyon sylvia Heine, Joum. fiir Orn., 1859, p. 406. 
Dacdo sylvia Schlegel, Mus. de Pays Bas, Alced., Vol. III., p. 47, 1863. 
Tanysiptera sylvia sylvia Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 290, 1912. 
Uralcyon sylvia sylvia Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 150, 1913. 
Uralcyon sylvia dydimus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 68, 1916 : Tully River, 
Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland. Extra -limital. 
Adult male. General colour above ultramarine-blue including the head, neck, wings, 
scapulars, and outer tail-feathers ; mantle black ; inner-webs of primary- and 
secondary-quills brown with buff margins ; short innermost scapulars buffy-white ; 
back, rump, upper taU-coverts and middle tail-feathers, which are much elongated, 
white ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts black ; throat and entire under- 
surface rufous-chestnut including the axillaries and under-coverts, the bases of 
the feathers on the sides of the body dusky-brown which shows through and 
looks more or less like a dark patch ; under-surface of quills dark brown with buff 
edges ; lower aspect of tail dark brown, central feathers white. Eyes black ; 
feet and bill scarlet. Total length 340 mm. ; culmen 30, wing 96, tail 225, 
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