_Souropatis cinnamominus_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, p. 59 (Guam).
_Hyposyma cinnamomina_ Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1,
1927, p. 384 (Marianne = Guam).
_Halcyon cinnamomina cinnamomina_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 179 (Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
200 (Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 293 (Guam);
Peters, Check-list Birds World, 5, 1945, p. 206 (Guam); Watson,
The Raven, 17, 1946, p. 41 (Guam); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll.,
vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 63 (Guam).
_Halcyon cinnamomius_ Bryan, Guam, Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p.
25 (Guam).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam.
_Characters._--Adult male: Head, neck, upper back, and entire under
surface near "Sanford's brown"; auriculars black with bluish wash;
narrow black line extending around nape; orbital ring black; lower
back, lesser wing-coverts, and scapulars deep greenish-blue; outer
webs of wing feathers and tail blue; rump resembles tail but
slightly lighter; under wing-coverts greenish-blue; feet dark
brown; bill black, base of mandible paler; iris dark brown.
Adult female: Resembles adult male, but chin, throat, and upper
breast paler; rest of underparts and under wing-coverts white; a
few cinnamon-tipped feathers on tibia and at bend of wing; back
and scapulars darker olive-green and less blue.
Immature: Resembles adult, but brown of crown mixed with
greenish-blue; back and wing-coverts edged with pale cinnamon;
chin and throat whitish; rest of underparts buffy-white in male
and paler in female; feathers on breast and nape with dark
edgings.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 32.
TABLE 32. MEASUREMENTS OF _Halcyon cinnamomina_
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