_Remarks._--The White-collared Kingfisher at Palau is a showy and
conspicuous bird. It cannot be classed as a forest bird but seems to
prefer openings and marginal woodlands. Its range does not overlap that
of the secretive and inconspicuous _H. cinnamomina pelewensis_, which
prefers the denser forests. In 1945, the NAMRU2 party found _H. c.
teraokai_ to be numerous in the cleared battle areas at Peleliu and
Angaur. A favorite perch of this bird was the telephone lines, from
which a number of our specimens were shot. Usually the bird was observed
singly; occasionally two birds were found together. A pair was seen in
copulation on August 29. The call of this bird, a loud and harsh rattle,
is noticeably different from the low rasping note of _H. c. pelewensis_.
Coultas found _H. c. teraokai_ to be numerous in 1931. He comments
(field notes) that the bird frequents salt water areas, especially the
mangrove swamps. He noted the bird fishing at the outer reef.
=Halcyon chloris orii= Takatsukasa and Yamashina
White-collared Kingfisher
_Halcyon chloris orii_ Takatsukasa and Yamashina, Dobutsu. Zasshi,
43, 1931, p. 484. (Type locality, Rota.)
_Halcyon albicillus_ Sharpe (part), Cat. Birds British Mus., 17,
1892, p. 249 (Marianne = Rota).
_Halcyon albicilla_ Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat.
Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 169 (Rota); Hartert (part), Novit. Zool.,
5, 1898, p. 53 (Rota).
_Sauropatis albicillus_ Kuroda (part), in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 58 (Rota).
_Halcyon chloris orii_] Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p.
180 (Rota); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 200 (Rota,
Saipan as straggler); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 293
(Rota); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 5, 1945, p. 210 (Rota);
Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 64
(Rota).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Rota.
_Characters._--Adult: Resembles _H. c. teraokai_, but loral spot
larger and more buffy; occiput lightly streaked with white and
white line above eye; top of head and back more oily green and
less blue, darker in female.
Immature: Resembles adult, but underparts and loral spot buffy
with dusky edges; feathers of forehead tipped with buff; remainder
of upper parts slightly darker.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 33.
_Weights._--The author (1948:64) lists the weights of two adult
females as 84 and 85.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 11 (4 males, 6 females, 1
unsexed), from Mariana Islands, USNM--Rota (Oct. 18, 19, 22, 26,
Nov. 2).
_Molt._--The 11 specimens taken by the NAMRU2 party at Rota in
October and November are in molt.
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