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CORYTHORNIS OÆRULEOCEPHALA.
(B LU E -C E E ST ED K IN G F ISH E R .)
Alcedo coeruleocephala,
Corythornis eceruleocephala
Alcedo cyaneocephala,
Alcedo eyanocephala, .
Corythornis eyanocephala, .
Corythornis nais
Alcedo nais,
Petit Martin-pecheur de Senegal
Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 449 (1788).
Kaup. Fam. Alced. p. 13 (1848).
Shaw, Gen. Zool. YIII, p. 100 (1812).
Hartl. and Finsch, Orn. Ostafr. p. 163 (1869).
Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. tli. II. p. 145 (1860),
Kaup. Fam. Alced. p. 12 (1848).
Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 64 (1848).
Buff. PI. Enl. 356.
C. rostro corallino : eristâ breriori, lætissimè cyaneâ.
Hab. in Africâ occidentali, in Abyssinia e t i^ Africa eur-austoali.
Head b rilliant blue, with a long crest, each feather o f which is blue with a black shaft
and crossed b y two black b ands n e a r th e tip ; sides o f th e h ead and ro st o f the u pper sm-iace
o f th e body u ltramarine ; wing-coverts black spotted wdth ultramarine ; quills blackish, the
inner webs pale rufous a t th e base, th e secondaries edged with u ltramarin e ; tail blackish
with a tin g e o f u ltramarine above ; th ro a t and a p atch o f feathers along th e sides o f the
neck, w h ite ; lores, cheeks, and th e r e s t o f th e under-surface o f th e body rich rufous, paler
in very old birds ; b ill and feet coral re d ; eyes dark browm. Total length 5 inches, o f bill
from fr’o n t 1.3, from gape 1.6, wing 2.2, tail 0.9, tarsu s 0.3, middle toe 0.45, hin d toe 0.2.
Hab. No rth Afi’ica (mm. B r it.) Fazoglo (mm. Philad.), Az-Johannis, Tigi’è (von
Heuglin), Senegal (Buffon), Gold Coast (mus. L u g d .), River Camma (D u Chaillu), Loanda
(mm. R . B . Sharpe), St. Thomas (Weiss, mm. Brem.) Ilh a do Principe (Dolirn, Keulemam),
Mozambique (mm . Hein.).
Mètb.
(1852),
Brebm. Jouru. f. Oru, 1853, p. 454, Harti. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 4, Miill. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 8, Schl.
.1. Mus.
Pays Bas. Alced. p. 11 (1863), Keul. Nederl. Tidsclir. I l l , p. 377 (1866). Corythornis coeruleocephala, Blyth,
Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 50 (1849), Eeieh. Handb. Alced. p. 18, t. cccxcidi, fig. 3063, t. cecciii b. fig. 3387,
(1851), Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 4 (1852), Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 10 (1854), Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad.
1859, p. 34, Heine, Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 187, Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 105, Du Chaillu, Equat. Afr. p. 472,
(1861), Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 333, Dohm, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 825, Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. I, p. 134
(1867). Corythornis nais, Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 18 (1851), Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 4, id. Journ. f. Orn.
1861, p. 105. AfriJo «ais, Gray, Gen. of Birds, App. p. 5 (1848), Hai-tl. Orn.Westafr. p. 37 (1857). Alcedo
eyanocephala, Heugl. Orn. Nord-Ost. Afr. p. 181 (1869).