LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
309. SAUROPATIS SANCTA. SACRED KINGFISHER. 
Gould, Vol. II., pi. 21 (pt. i,), Dec. 1st, 1840. Mathews, Vol. VII., pt. 2, pi. 339, May 15th, 
1918. 
Halcyon sanetus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 206, Feb. 17th, 1827 : New South 
Wales. 
Alcyone ruficollaris Bankier, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. VI., p. 394, Jan. 1841 : Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Halcyon westralasianus Campbell, Emu, Vol. I., No. 1, p. 25, Oct. 1st, 1901 : Vasse, South-west Australia. 
Halcyon sanetus ramsayi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 289, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Parry’s Creek, North-west 
Australia. 
Halcyon sanetus confusus Mathews, ib. : Cooktown, Queensland. 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
310. SAUROPATIS CHLORIS. MANGROVE KINGFISHER. 
[Alcedo chloris Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlum., p. 49, (pref. Dec. 1st) 1783. Buru Island, Moluccas. Extra- 
limital.] 
Gould, Vol. II., pi. 23 (pt. xxxii.), Sept. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. VII., pt. 2, pi. 340, May 
15th, 1918. 
Halcyon sordidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 72, Dec. : North coast of Australia=Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Halcyon sordidus cooktowni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 289, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cooktown, Queensland. 
Halcyon sordidus melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 38, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Melville Island, 
Northern Territory. 
Sauropatis sordida colcloughi Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 61, Feb. 22nd, 1916 : Mud Island, 
near Brisbane, Queensland. 
Distribution. Northern Australia, as far south as Brisbane on the east and Point Cloates on the west coast. 
CCLXI. Genus URALCYON . 
Oralcyon Heine, Joum. fur Ornith., p. 406, 1859 (for November) = 1860 (see pp. 463, 469). Type (by original 
designation) : Tanysiptera sylvia Gould. 
311. URALCYON SYLVIA. WHITE-TAILED KINGFISHER. 
Gould, Suppl., pi. 6 (pt. i.), March 15th, 1851. Mathews, Vol. VII., pt. 2, pi. 341, May 15th, 
1918. 
Tanysiptera sylvia Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. 105 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Uralcyon sylvia dydimus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 58, April 7th, 1916 : Tully River, North 
Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland. 
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Order MEROPIFORMES. 0 
Family MEROPID.E. 
CCLXII. Genus COSMAEROPS. 
Cosmaerops Cabanis und Heine, Mus. Heine, Vol. II., p. 138, after January 20th, 1860, Type (by monotypy) : 
Merops ornatus Latham. 
312. COSMAEROPS ORNATUS. BEE-EATER. 
Gould, Vol. II., pi. 16 (pt. vii.), June 1st, 1842. Mathews, Vol. VII., pt. 2, pi. 342, May 15th ; 
1918. 
Merops ornatus Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxv., after May 1801 (partly based on Watling drawing 
No. 84)=New South Wales. 
Merops tenuipennis ou M. thouini Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. XX., p. 52, June 29th, 1821 : “ aux 
terres Australes ”=New South Wales. 
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