HALCYON CYANOLEUCA,ad.&ju>
HA L C YON CY ANOL LÜCA .
(ANGOLA K IN G F ISH E R .)
Alcedo cyanoleuca.
Cancrophaga cyanoleuca,
Martin-pecheur à ventre sablé,
VieiU. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. XIX. p. 401 (1818).
Hartl. Contr. to Oru. 1849, p. 20.
Bonap, Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854).
Temm. Cat. syst. p. 215 (1807).
H. maxiUâ rubrâ, mandíbula nigrâ: scapularibus lætè thalassino lavatis: major: pUeo lætè thalassino
stria nigrâ per oculum suprà regionem paroticam products.
Hab in Africâ occidentali e t australi.
A b o v e b e a u t if u l th a la s s in e - b lu e , sh ow in g a s e a -g re e n t i n t in some lig h ts , especially
b r ig h t o n th e r um p a n d o u t e r e d g e o f th e se c o n d a iie s ; a w h ite s tr ip e from th e b a s e o f th e
n o s tr ils e x te n d in g b a c kw a rd s o v e r th e e y e , w h i t e ; fe a th e r s a t th e b a se o f th e b ill,
e n c irc lin g th e e y e a n d e x te n d in g b a c kw a rd s o v e r th e e a r-c o v e rts d e e p b la c k ; Aving-
co v e rts j e t-b la c k , o u t e r w in g -c o v e rts th a la s s in e -b lu e ; q u ills b la c k , th e in n e r w e b w h ite a t
th e b a s e ; t a i l th a la s s in e -b lu e ab o v e , b e n e a th b la c k ; t h r o a t a n d u n d e r Aving-coverts p u re
w h ite ; r e s t o f th e u n d e r - s u r f a c e o f th e b o d y g r e y is h Avhite, Avith sm a ll tra n s v e rs e c in e re o u s
v e r n ic u la tio n s , a n d w a sh e d in som e l ig h ts w ith a th a la s s in e l u s tr e ; u p p e r m an d ib le
v e rm ilio n , loAver m a n d ib le b la c k ; fe e t b la c k . T o ta l l e n g th 9 in c h e s , o f b ill from fro n t
1 .8 , from g a p e 2 .3 , w in g 4 .4 , t a i l 2 .5 , ta r s u s 0 .4 , m id d le to e 0 .7 , h iu d to e 0 .35.
Hab. Gambia R iv er (mus. B . B . Sharpe), Angola (Temminck), Benguela (Monteiro),
Ondonga, Ovampo Country (Andersson), Cape Colony (L a ya rd ), Monocusi River, N. Natal
(Ayres), Zambesi River (mus. Walden et R . B . Sharpe).
I believe this species to be fuUy separable from H. m s , th e p o in ts o f d is tin c -
Additional references.—Alcedo cyanoleuca. Bon. et Vieill. Encl. Meth. I, p. 394 (1823). Halcyon cyanolettca,
Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 2 ; id. Orn. Westaf. p. 31 (1857), Miiller, Journ. f. Om. 1855, p. 8 ; Gurney, Ibis,
18C8, p. 265, Halcyon senegalensis, Mont. P.Z.S. 1865, p, 94; Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 265, Layard, Birds
of S. Afr. p. 62 (1867).
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