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Genus HALCYON Swains. 
ITalcyon Swainson, Zool. lllustr. vol. i. pi. 27, 1821. Type (by 
original designation) : Alcedo senegalensis L. 
Sub-Genus ENTOMOTHERA Horsf. 
Entomothera Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 173, note, 1820, 
and Zool. Research, Java, 4th June, 1822 in letterpress of Alcedo 
him. Type (by subsequent designation, Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. 
p. xiii, 1871 ) : Alcedo coroman da Lath. 
Entomothera coromanda (Lath.). 
Distr. —Southern Asia to Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Japan, and 
Celebes. 
[ Entomothera coromanda coromanda (Lath.). (17-217.) 
Alcedo coromanda Latham, Tnd. Orn. vol. i. p. 252, 1700: Coro¬ 
mandel Coast = Rangoon, Pegu. (Cf. Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. vol. xlviii. p. 643, 1915.) 
Distr . — Rangoon to Malay Peninsula. Extra-limital.] 
Entomothera coromanda rufa (Wall.). 
Halcyon ru^a Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1862, p. 338 : 
Makassar, Celebes. (Fig. Sharpe, pi. 57.) 
Distr . — Celebes and its islands. 
Sub-Genus CECILIA Math. 
Cecilia Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 153, 1918. Type (by 
original designation): Alcedo pile at a Bodd. 
Cecilia pileata (Bodd.). (17-229.) 
Alcedo pileata Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlum. p. 41, 1783 -. China. 
(Fig. Sharpe, pi. 62; Gould, Asia, vol. i. pi. 45.) 
Alcedo atricapilla Gmclin, Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 453, 1788 : China. 
Alcedo brama Lesson, Cent. Zool. pi. 8, 1830 : China. 
Alcedo puella Reichonbach, Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 149 : new name for pileata . 
Distr. —Celebes, Indo-Malayan Arch. Also extra-1 imital. 
Sub-Genus LECJCALCYON Math. 
Leucalcyon Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 156, 1918. Type (by 
original designation): Halcyon saurophaga Gould. 
Leucalcyon albicilla (Dumont). 
Distr .—Moluccas to New Guinea and the Papuan Islands, the 
Louisiades : Solomon Archipelago, New Ireland, Marianne 
Islands, and Marquesas. 
