HA L C YON CI NNAMOMI NA.
(CINNAMON KIN GF ISHEK.)
Halcyon cinnamomina . . . . . Swains. Zool. Illustr. 1st ser. II, pl. 67 (1821).
Todiramphus cinnamominus . . . . Bonap. Consp. Gen. At. I, p. 157 (1850).-
Sauropatis cinnamomina . . . . Cab. and Heine, JIus. Hein. th. II, p. 159 (i860).
Dacelo c in n am om in a ..................................... Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced, p. 39 (1860).
Alcedo r u f i c e p s ...............................................Cuv. M.S. in Mus. Paris, wncZè.
“Alcedo ruficeps, Cuv." . . . . Dumont, Diet. Sei. Nat. SXIX, p. 273 (1823).
Dacelo r u f i c e p s ...............................................Less. Traité d’Orn. p. 247 (1831).
Halcxjon r u fic e p sGray, HandLof B. I, p. 93 (1869).
Halcyon Reichenhaehii..................................... Hartl. "Wiegm. Arch. 1852, p. 21.
H. major: supra viridis : pileo toto eiunamomeo, interdum medialiter viridi sti-iato : torque nuchaii cinna-
momea: linea ab oculo orta nucham eh’cumdata, nigi-o; subtus alba, gula eiunamomea. AU. subtus cirmamomea,
gula albicante et fasciis nigris transvitfcata, tectricibus alarum cinnamonieo faseiatis.
Hab. in sub-regione Austro-Malayanâ.
No. 1. Top and sides o f head deep cinnamon, a narrow line o f d ull gi-een proceeding
from th e back o f each eye and encircling th e nape ; back o f the neck rath e r paler cinnamon ;
u pper po rtio n o f the back and scapulars dull green, glossed with b rig h ter green ; lower
portion o f the back bluish g reen ; entire wing-coverts green ; quils dark broAvn, the inner
web yellowish white a t th e base, th e o u ter web, especially of the secondaries,, margined
with gi-eeu ; ta il b lac k ish ,'th e cen tral feathers entirely green, th e others washed ratiier
broadly on th e o u ter web with th e same colour, u nder surface o f the ta il greyish-brovm ;
th ro a t and u pper p o rtio n o f the b rea st r ic h cinnamon ; res t o f the u nder surface o f the body
pure w h ite ; b ill black, tb e u n d e r mandible yellowish a t the b a se; feet dark olNe-brown.
No. 2. Head pale cinnamon, a'few gi-eenish feathers on the crown ; under sm-face of
the body rich ciimamon, paler on th e thro at.
No. 3. Head deep cinnamon, striped thickly all over the crown with dark green
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Additional roferenees.—Halcyon cinnamomina, Tig. and ITorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XV, p. 206 (1827) :
Gould, Syn. B. of Austr. pt. III. (1838) ; Gray, Gon. of B. I, p. 79 (1846) ; id. B. of Trop. Isl. Paeif. Oe. p. 5
(1859) • id. Handl. of B. p. 93 (1869). Todiranxphus cinnamominus, Keich. Handb. Alced. p. 32, t. ccccxx,
fig 3140 (1851): Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 12 (1852); id. Un. St. Expl. Exp. p, 222 (1858). Alcedo
ruficeps Puchcr. Ker. et Mag. dc Zool. 1853, p. 367; Hartl. Journ. f. Om. 1855, p. 423. Halcyon Eeicltenhachii,
Finsch and Hartl. P.Z.S. 1868, p. 4 ; Gray, Handl. of B. I, p. 93 (1869).
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