_Remarks._--In 1945, the NAMRU2 party found this kingfisher in forested
areas and at the edges of mangrove swamps on small islands near Peleliu.
Only six birds were seen. The bird was located by listening for and
determining the direction of its rasping call. After a search of the
area of leafy foliage from where the call was coming, the bird would be
seen sitting motionless on a near-by perch. McElroy of the NAMRU2 party
saw a kingfisher with cinnamon underparts at Bulubul Island at Ulithi
Atoll on August 21, 1945. It was not taken.
=Halcyon cinnamomina reichenbachii= (Hartlaub)
Micronesian Kingfisher
_Todirhamphus Reichenbachii_ Hartlaub, Archiv f. Naturgesch., 18,
1852, p. 131. (Type locality, Ponapé.)
_Halcyon cinnamominus_ Finsch (part), Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12,
1876, pp. 17, 19 (Ponapé); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877
(1878), p. 778 (Ponapé); _idem_, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, p. 285
(Ponapé); _idem_, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, p. 285 (Ponapé);
_idem_, Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 47 (Ponapé).
_Sauropatis cinnamomina_ Salvadori (part), Ornith. Papuasia, 1,
1880, p. 481 (Ponapé).
_Halcyon cinnamomina_ Finsch, Ibis, 1881, pp. 112, 114 (Ponapé);
Tristram (part), Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 92 (Ponapé).
_Halcyon mediocris_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 17, 1892, p.
260 (Type locality, Ponapé); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. and Ber. Zool.
Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 16 (Ponapé); Oustalet,
Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, pp. 177, 180,
181, 184, 185, 186 (Ponapi); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 116
(Ponapé).
_Halcyon reichenbachi_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 15 (Ponapé); Oustalet, Nouv.
Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, pp. 176, 180, 181, 182,
183, 184, 185, 186 (Ponapi); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 53
(Ponapé); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 112, 113 (Ponapé);
Mayr, Proc. 6th Pacific Sci. Congr., 4, 1941, p. 204 (Ponapé).
_Halcyon cinnamominus_ var. _reichenbachi_ Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1,
1902, p. 108 (Ponapé).
_Halcyon cinnamominus_ var. _mediocris_ Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1,
1902, p. 108 (Ponapé).
_Halcyon reichenbachii_ Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p.
53 (Ponapé).
_Sauropatis mediocris_ Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore, Bull.
Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 195 (Ponapé).
_Sauropatis reichenbachii reichenbachii_ Kuroda, in Momiyama,
Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 60 (Ponapé).
_Hyposyma cinnamomina reichenbachii_ Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 384 (Ponapé).
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