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HALCYON GULARIS.
HA L C YON GUL A R I S .
(W H IT E -TH R O A T ED K IN G F ISH E R .)
Grand Martin-pecJieur de Madgascar
Alcedo smyrnensis, var. b.
Alcedo gularis . . . .
Halcyon gularis .
Bntomotliera gularis
Entomohia gularis
Alcedo rufirostris .
lelanoptera
Halcyon ruficollis
Halcyon smyrnensis •
Halcyon fusca
Alcedo fusca
ogularis
Buff. PI. Enl. 232.
Gm. Syst. Nat, I, p. 456 (1788).
Kulil, Buff, aud Daub. Pig. Av. Col. Nom. Syst. pN 4 (1820).
Gray, Gen. of B. I,p . 79 (1846); Kaup, Jlouogr. Alced. p. 8
(1848); Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 155 (1850); Gould,
B. of Asia, part X I II (1861).
Eeich. Handb. Alced. I, p. 13, t. cccci, fig. 3082 (1851).
Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. tb. II, p. 155 (I860).
Kittl. Kupf. Vog. p. 10, t. 14, flg. 2 (1832); Meyen, Beitr.
p. 94 (1834).
Temm. Tabl. Meth. p. 75 (1886 nec Horsf.).
SAvains. Classif. of. B. II, p. 335 (1887).
Blyth, Journ. As. Soe. Beng. 1843, p. 998; et 1844, p. 394.
Cass. Cat. Hale. Pliil. Mus. p. 6 (1852, nee Bodd).
Martens, J.f.O. 1866, p. 16; et Preuss. Exp. p. 189 (1867,
nec Bodd).
II. pileo et abdomine eastaneis : gutture circumseriptè albo.
Hah. in insulis PMlippmis.
Hab. Ph ilip p in e Islan d s (mus. S .B .S .) ; Luzon (Kiulitz).
Tho figures which accompany th is article sufficiently illu stra te the differences between
th e p resen t bird and Its nearest ally, tbe WHte-breasted Kingfisher (Ha la jm m n r n m m ) .
l l i e triv ia l names which 1 have selected also serve to characterize the two species, and I
may add th at, besides the difference in the ex te n t o f white on the th ro a t, th e Philippine
bird IS a ltogether d a rk e r m plumage.
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