CARCINEUTES MELANOPS.
Dacelo melanops,
Halcyon melanops,
Lacedo melanops,
(BLA CK-CH E EK ED K IN G F ISH E R .)
Temm. Ms. Mus. Lugd.
ScM. Mus. P a y s Bas, Alced. p. 21 (18C3).
„ Vog. Ned. Ind. Alced. pp. 16,51, pl. 5 (1864),
'Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 154 (1850).
Cass. Cat. Ha lc . P h il. Mus. p. 7 (1852).
Ee ich. Handb. Alced. p. 42 (1851).
Cab. and Heine, Mua. Hein. th. I I , p. 163, note (1860).
Hab. in in su lâ “ Borneo” dictâ.
Head, nape, back and lying-coverts black, each feather banded with white and tipped
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motted and tipped with w h ite; forehead, cheeks and a c o lk r W o / t o e / a / e ’ f e Z k c ' l “
i l o a t w h ite ; upper p a rt of th e b rea st and flanks pale brownish r e d ; c e n t / o f ibdomeii
mid u nde r wmg-coverts lig h te r; bill deep r e d ; fe?t bufly ochre yellow Total l e n Z
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ig b lu e ; ta il black,banded with blue and w h ite ; primaries black, s e c o n d /ie s
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Hab. Borneo [Mas. Lugd).
the o l / f t species is apparently almost u n rep resen ted in collections in th is co u n try
Z Z U o ft“ / " ' ' " ' " I U ™ T f t f t f t f t g “ y ° “ “ g male in my own collec S !
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th e Ma accan C. pukhellm, b u t chfliers from i t in hav in g th e forehead, cheeks and n uchal
b / lik e to T t f / M 1 ° The female is s till unknown, b be like th a t of its Malaccan representative. u t i t will doubtless
I ’h e measurements are taken from the specimen in my own collection, while the
& h lU e l 'T r M Y pfete is drawn from th e ad u lt b ird in the Leiden Museum (No. 1 o f
Schlegel s Cat.) the small figure representing the y o u n g bird. Tbe blue on th ? back of
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