CARCINEUTES PULCHELLUS.
Dacelo pulohtUa
Lacedo „
Carcineutes pulchellus,
Dacelo buccoides
(BA N D ED K IN G F ISH E R .)
Horsf. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 175 (1822).
Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, I, p. 79 (c. 1844).
Keich. Handb. Alced. p. 42, t. ceccxxix. fig. 8168-9 (1851).
Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. ii. p. 163 (1860).
Temm. Pl. Col. 586.
C. plumis dorsi nigris, fasciis celatis albis, et tlialassino-coeruleo terminatis : caudâ nigrâ, fasciis extus.
cæruleis intus albis transvittatâ: fronte, genis, regione paroticà, colloque postico rufis. Foem. toto diversa: suprà
nigra, fasciis ocliraeeis vittata, dorsi, tectricûm alarum et caudæ fasciis latioribus : subtus alba : pectore et liypochoudriis
nigro transradiolatis.
Hah. in regione Indo-Malayana.
Head, nape, back and win g coverts black, each feather banded with Avhite and tipped
with shin in g b lu e ; ta il black, banded Avith blue and w h ite ; p rim a rie s black, secondaries
lOtted and tipped Avith Avhite; forehead, cheeks and a collar beloAV th e nape deep c h e sn u t;
iroat white ; u pper p a rt o f th e breast and flanks pale broAvnish red ; centre o f abdomen
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^..Tt o f th e b rea st and flanks banded Avitd black. I d t a i le n g th !
ri’om fro n t 1.4, from gape 1.8, wing 3.4, ta il 2.7, tarsu s .4, middle toe .5, h in d toe .3.
Hab. Mergui (Blyth),I
,cca (Cantor, Wallace).
Malacca
ll), Burmah (Mason), Sumatra (Mus. Hem.), Ja v a (Horsfield, WaUace),
Dr. Horsfield, th e o riginal describer, in his “ Zoological Researches in JiiA’a,” s a y s:—
“ Th is is an extremely rare and local bird, and I found i t once only, in a low range of
h ills about tw en ty miles so u th -east o f Samarang, known in the central p arts o f the island
by the name o f the h ills o f PrOA\®oto. Here a single b ird was obtained in the forest.”
A lth o u g h numerous specimens have reached E u ro p e from the island o f J a v a since
Additional References.—D.pulchella, Horsf. Zool. Res. in Java. pl. (1824'): Temm. Pl. Col. 277 ; Blyth,
Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soe. Beng. p. 46 (1849): Moore, P.Z.S. 1854, p. 268 : Horsf. and Moore, Cat. Birds Mus.
E. I. Co. I. p. 122 (1854): Schl. Mus. Pays Bas. p. 21(1863); id. Vog. Ned. Ind. AZccJ. pp. 15. 50,
pl. V. (1864); II. pulchella, Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus,, p. 52 (1848): Bonap. Cons. Gen. Av. I. p. 154 (1850);
Cass. Cat. Halc. Phil. Mus, p . 7 (1852): Pek. Y q j. N ov. Afog. p . 44 (1865).
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