_Halycyon cinnamomina reichenbachii_ Hand-list Japanese Birds,
rev., 1932, p. 180 (Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 200 (Ponapé); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 293
(Ponapé); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 5, 1945, p. 206
(Ponapé).
_Halcyon cinnamomina reichenbachii_ Bequaert, Mushi, 12, 1939, p.
82 (Ponapé); idem, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 16, 1941,
p. 290 (Ponapé).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Ponapé.
_Characters._--Adult male: Resembles adult male of _H. c.
cinnamomina_, but with slightly smaller wing and smaller tail;
slightly longer bill; top of head paler cinnamon; feathers of back
tipped with cinnamon and bordered by backish; underparts white.
Adult female: Resembles adult male, but feathers forward of black
nape band may be mixed white and cinnamon; back and scapulars
duller and less olive.
Immature: Resembles adult, but crown streaked with greenish-black;
back and scapulars darker; wing-coverts edged with cinnamon, in
male chin and throat creamy, sides of throat, breast, and flanks
cinnamon, and axillaries, under wing-coverts, abdomen, under
tail-coverts paler cinnamon; in female chin and throat white and
rest of underparts paler than in male.
_Measurements._--Measurements are presented in table 32.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 49 (25 males, 24 females), as
follows: Caroline Islands, USNM--Ponapé, 1 (Feb. 12); AMNH--Ponapé,
48 (Nov., Dec).
_Molt._--Most of the specimens taken by Coultas in November and
December are either worn or in molt.
_Parasites._--Bequaert (1939:82 and 1941:290) records a fly
(Hippoboscidae), _Ornithoica pusilla_, from the Micronesian
Kingfisher at Ponapé.
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