HALCYON SORDIDUS, Goud.
Sordid Halcyon.

Halcyon sordidus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part X. p. 72.

 

I possess two specimens of this species of Halcyon, which were killed by Mr. Bynoe on the north coast of
Australia; unfortunately they were unaccompanied by any information respecting their habits and economy ;
they appear to be fully adult, and equal in size the Halcyon collaris,—a species, which, although said to

be Australian, I have no authentic evidence of its ever having been killed therein.

 

Head, back, scapularies and wing-coverts brownish oil-green; wings greenish blue, gradually changing
into green on the tips of the tertiaries; collar round the back of the neck and all the under surface buffy
white ; tail greenish blue ; upper mandible and tip of the lower one black; base of the latter flesh-white.

The figures are of the natural size.

 

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