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HALCYON V A G AN S .
H A L CYO N YAGANS .
(NEW ZEA LAN D K IN GFISHER-)
Alcedo chlorocepki
Haleyon vagans
Todirhamphus vagans .
lácelo sancta (pt.) .
Halcyon sanetus
Alcedo cyanea .
Kofare of tlie natives of New
Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. 114.
Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. I, p. 295 (1823).
Less. Voy. Coq. I, p. 694 (1826).
Less. Traité d’Orn. p. 546 (1831).
Gray, Voy. Ereb. & Terror, p. 3, pl. 1 (1844) ; id. Gen. of B. I , p.
79 (1846); id. Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 57 (1848); id. Ibis,
1862, p. 216; Layard, Ibis, 1863, p. 242; Hutton, Ibis, 1867,
p. 379 ; Buller, Essay on Oi-n. of N. Z. p. 7 (1867) ; Einsch,
Joui-n. f. Orn. 1867, p. 318; Buller, Trans. N. Z. Inst. I, p.
122 (1869) ; Hutton, I.e. I, p. 160 ; Potts, I.e. II, p. 52 (1870).
Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 157 (1851); Eeich. H.andb. Alccd. p.
31, t. cccexix, fig. 8188-89 (1851); Cass. Cat. Halc. Phü. Mus.
p. 12 (1852), Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p 9 (1854); Cass. U.
S. Expl. Exp. p. 201 (1848).
Schl. Cat. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 37 (1868).
Finsch, Journ. f. Oni. 1870, p. 246.
Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 76 (1844).
{Potts).
H. similis H. sancice, sed major: coloribus sordidioi'ibus.
Hab. in Nova Zeelandia.
Adult. H e a d d u l l g re e n , b r ig h t e r o v e r th e e y e ; lo re s b u ff ; e a r-c o v e rts a n d th e b a c k
o f th e n e c k b la c k ; a n o c c ip ita l p a tc h h u ffy w h ite ; u p p e r p a r t o f th e b a c k b la c k ish ;
s c a p u la rs d u ll o liv e -g r e e n ; l e a s t w in g -c o v e rts d u ll g re e n , r e s t o f th e w in g -c o v e rts b r ig h t e r
g r e e n w a sh e d w ith b l u e ; q u ills b la c k , e x te rn a lly Avashed Avith c o b a l t ; loAver p o rtio n o f th e
b a c k b r ig h t e r g re e n , in c lin in g to c o b a lt o n th e u p p e r ta il-c o v e rts ; ta il b la c k , c le a rly w a sh ed
w ith b lu e a b o v e ; sid e s a n d b a c k o f th e n e c k a n d u n d e r -su rf a c e o f th e b o d y b u ff ; b ill b l a c k ;
y e llow ish a t th e b a s e ; fe e t oliA®e bro-wn. T o ta l l e n g th 8-4 iu ch e s ; o f b ill from f r o n t 19.,
Tom g a p e 2 ‘4 ; Avdng 3 8 5 ; ta i l 2 9 ; ta r s u s 0 .5 .
Young. Similar to the ad u lt b u t has the colours everj’where duller, and the hinder
neck and b rea st crossed Avith narrow broAvn edgings to the feathers.
Hah. New Zealand {Haast, Buller, Poits).
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