Bismarck Kingfisher

Here the details of the Bismarck Kingfisher named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ceyx websteri
Protonym:  Alcyone websteri ThroughNewGuinea[Webster] p.371
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Alcedinidae / Ceyx
Taxonomy Code:  biskin1
Type Locality:  New Hanover.
Author:  Hartert, E
Publish Year:  1898
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

CEYX
(Alcedinidae; Ϯ Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher C. erithaca) L. ceyx, ceycis  seabird variously identified  < Gr. κηυξ kēux, κηυκος kēukos  seabird mentioned by Dionysius and Lucian, and considered identical to the halcyon. In Gr. myth. Ceyx, blasphemous husband to Alcyone, was drowned at sea and metamorphosed into a kingfisher along with his desolated wife when she found his body washed up on the shore; "62. CÉYX.  Ceyx.  { Le bec très-long; la langue courte; le tarse très-court; chaque pied ne présentant que trois doigts." (de Lacépède 1799); "Ceyx Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 10. Type, by monotypy, Alcedo tridactyla Pallas = Alcedo erithaca Linné (species added, Daudin, in Buffon, Hist. Nat. (éd Didot), 14, 1802, p. 287.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 178).
Var. Ceix, Ceux, Ceycis.
Synon. Alcyon, Argyroceyx, Ceycalcyon, Ceycopsis, Cyanoceyx, Micralcyone, Therosa.

websteri
● Capt. Herbert Cayley Webster (d. 1917) English explorer in New Guinea and the Bismarcks (subsp. Cacomantis variolosus, Ceyx).
● Frank Blake Webster (1850-1922) US taxidermist (subsp. Sula sula).