_Halcyon pelewensis_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 15. (Type locality, Pelew
Islands.)
_Halcyon reichenbachii_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1868, pp. 4, 118 (Pelew); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus.,
17, 1892, p. 261 (Pelew).
_Halcyon cinnamomina_ Sharpe (part), Monogr. Alced., 1868-'71, pp.
xxxii, 213, pl. 30 (Pelew); Tristram (part), Cat. Birds, 1889, p.
92 (Pelew).
_Dacelo reichenbachii_ Schlegel, Mus. Pay-Bas, 3, no. 39, 1874, p.
29 (Pelew).
_Halcyon reichenbachi_ Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp.
4, 11 (Palau); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 116 (Palau).
_Halcyon cinnamominus_ Finsch (part), Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12,
1876, pp. 17, 20 (Palau).
_Sauropatis cinnamomina_ Salvadori (part), Ornith. Papuasia, 1,
1880, p. 481 (Pelew).
_Halcyon pelewensis_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 53
(Pelew); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 112, 113 (Palau);
Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 53 (Pelew); Uchida,
Annot. Zool. Japan., 9, 1918, p. 483 (Palau).
_Halcyon Reichenbachi_ var. _pelewensis_ Oustalet, Nouv. Arch.
Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 186 (Pelew).
_Halcyon cinnamominus_ var? _pelewensis_ Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1,
1902, p. 108 (Pelew).
_Sauropatis reichenbachii pelewensis_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1932, p. 60 (Angaur).
_Hyposyma cinnamomina pelewensis_ Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 385 (Palau).
_Halcyon cinnamomina pelewensis_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev.,
1932, p. 180 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
200 (Babelthuap, Koror); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p.
293 (Palau); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 5, 1945, p. 206
(Babelthuap, Koror); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no.
15, 1948, pp. 63, 64 (Peleliu, Ngabad).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Palau Islands--Kayangel,
Babelthuap, Koror, Garakayo, Ngabad, Angaur.
_Characters._--Adult: Resembles adult of _H. c. cinnamomina_, but
smaller and with underparts white; auriculars with less bluish
wash; outer webs of outer tail feathers edged with white.
Immature: Resembles immature female of _H. c. cinnamomina_, but
smaller with white underparts edged with black on throat, breast,
and upper abdomen; outer webs of outer tail feathers edged with
white.
_Measurements._--Measurements are presented in table 32.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 17 (8 males, 8 females, 1
unsexed), as follows: Palau Islands, USNM--Babelthuap, 1 (Nov.
30)--Peleliu, 1 (Sept. 10)--Ngabad, 3 (Sept. 11); AMNH--exact
locality not given, 12 (Oct., Nov., Dec.).
_Food habits._--Stomachs of specimens obtained by the NAMRU2 party
at Palau contained insects. One male had a large cicada in its
stomach. Coultas (field notes) writes that foods of this bird
consist of grubs and ants.
_Parasites._--Uchida (1918:483) found the bird louse (Mallophaga),
_Docophorus alatoclypeatus_, on this bird at Palau.
_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)