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Identifier: historyofbirdsof04bree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Halcyon smynioisis, Of Indian Authors. It is to the scientific researches of the late lamentedMr. Strickland that we are indebted for the re-discoveryin Asia Minor of this well-known Indian species ofKingfisher. Since then it has been found (as he sur-mised it would) in the adjacent Turkish EuropeanIslands. It was first introduced into the Europeanlist by Bonaparte, as stated by M. Pazzudaki, in hisCatalogue des Oiseaux d Europe, published in 1856,and it is included in the list of European birdspublished by Professor Blasius in 1861, the TurkishEuropean Islands being cited as a locality. Mr, Strickland read a paper at the British Associationat Manchester in 1842, entitled The re-discovery ofHalcyon smi/rnensis in Asia Minor, in which heproves that Albins figure of the Smyrna Kingfisher,published in his Natural History of Birds, is inevery respect identical with the bird known in Indiaas the Haley0)1 sjnyrnensis; and that the differencebetween that bird and Albins figure arose from the
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SMYRNA KINGFISHER. 219 former being in immature plumage. The following isan extract from this paper:— During my residence at Smyrna in the winter of1835-6, I fiiiled in meeting with any traces of thisbird, although two other species of Alcidinidce, namely,Alcedo ispida, Linnseus, and Cerijle rudis, Hasselquist,were not infrequent. The Halcyon smyrnensis, however,belonging as it does to an insectivorous genus, whichis rarely met with far beyond the tropics, couldhardly be expected to occur so far north as Smyrnain the depth of winter. Failing in this attempt, Itook occasion, at a later period, when supplying thatardent and philosophic zoologist, Mr. Edward Forbes,with a list of ornithological desiderata to be sought forin the Levant, to call his particular attention to thelong-lost Smyrna Kingfisher, and I am happy to sayhis researches have at last been crowned with success.In a letter from him, dated Maori, on the coast ofLycia, at the end of February last, (1842,) he says,—■One