HAL C YON A U S T R A L A S I i E .
(CORON ET T ED K IN G F ISH E R ).
Alado a m t r a l a s i a ......................................Yieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. six, p. 419 (1818) ;
Bonn, et Tieill. Enc. Meth. I, p. 397 (1823);
Puelier. Eev. et Mag. de Zool. v, p. 389 (1853).
Halcyon a u s t r a la s i e s ......................................Gi-ay, Handl. of B. I, p. 93 (1869).
Sauropatis australasies......................................Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 161 (1860).
Halcyon coronata ......................................Müll. Verh. Nat. Gesch. I, p. 175 (1839); Gray, Gon.
of B. I, p. 79 (1846); ‘Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 484.
Todirhamphus coronatus . . . . . Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 157 (1850) ; Cass. Cat.
Halc. Phil. Mus. p. 11 (1852) ; Bonap. Consp. Tol.
Anis. p. 9 (1854); Cass. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 218,
pl. xix (1858).
Paralcyon c o r o n a t a ......................................Eeich. Handb. Alced. p. 35, t. eccexxi, fig. 3142 (1851).
H. rostro nigro, mandibulà a
coloribus saturaüoribus.
1 fulvescente: pileo medio viridi: coUo postico cinnamomino: minor:
Hah. Iq insulis “ T im o r” “ Lombock” dictis.
CroTVTi o f tbe bead g r e e n ; forehead and a broad band encircling the head deep
cinnamon ; below th is cincture another line extending from each eye ro u n d the back o f the
neck black, tin g ed with d ark green ; a collar round the back of the neck rich cinnamon ;
back and scapulars green, r a t& r duiler on the former, and bo th indistmctly waved with
obscm*e bands in certain lig h ts ; lower p a rt o f the back, rump and upper tail-covcrts b rig h t
blue ; wing-coverts v e ry b rig h t blue ; quiRs black, fulvous a t the base, externally broadly
washed w ith greenish blue ; tail blue above, g reyish black beneath ; u nder surface rich
cinnamon, paler on the th ro a t which inclines to white ; bill black, yellow a t the base of the
lower mandible ; feet reddish brown. Total len g th 7’5 inches, of bill from front 1‘5, from
gape 2‘0, wing 3‘4, ta il 2‘0, tarsu s 0 ’45, middle toe 0'5, liiaul toe 0*35.
Hah. Timor {Muller, WaUace), Lombock {Wallace).
This e legant species is v e ry similar to the Cinnamon Kingfisher {Halcyon cinnamomina),
o f which i t d s a diminutive form. The colours are very similar, and M. Ju le s Verreaux
informs me, th a t as in the last named bird, the plumage is subject to gi'cat variation ; it is,
howCA’cr, a d istin c t species, much smaUer in size and more richly coloured. I ts range seems
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