no.1657. KINGFISHER 0ENV8 RAMPHALCYON OBERHOLSER. ggg 



ochraceous tint of the under surface and of the sides of head and 

 neck. An immature bird from Mindanao is about as deeply colored 

 below. Sexual differences are no! so conspicuous in this race as in 

 many of the others. 



Measurements above recorded were furnished by the specimens 

 below : 



RAMPHALCYON CAPENSIS GURIAL (Pearson). 



Mil ihi gurial Pearson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, X, 1841, p. 633 (Midna- 



pore, Bengal, [ndia i . 

 Ah i/i,n capensis vel princeps Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., L844, p. si" 



(Nepal). 

 Halcyon brunict ps Jebdon, Madras Journ., XTII, i s 1 1 i 1845), p. I 13 (Gooui- 



soor, Malabar, and Travancore, India). 



Subspecific characters. — Like Ramphalcyon capensis burmanicu, 

 Init pileum darker: lower parts paler, the chin and throat more whit- 

 ish and more contrasted with breast and abdomen. 



Measurements. — Thret males: Wing, L53 L56 (average, 154.2); 

 tail, 102; exposed culmen, 75.5 82.5 (average, 78.7); tarsus, 17 L8.5 

 (average, 17.7). Om /< mah /Wing, L59; tail. L02.5; exposed culmen, 

 s <>: tarsus. Is.:, nun. 



Type locality. — Midnapore, Bengal, India. 



graphical distribution.— Peninsula <»t' India, excepting the 

 northwestern part, south to Ceylon, north to Sikkim, and eas< to 

 A.ssam and Manipur. 



This race is most closely allied to Ramphalcyon c. burmanica, and 

 like it is distinguished from the other above-described forms by its 

 brown pileated head. From both Ramphalcyon c. gouldi and Ram- 

 phalcyon c intermedia it differs in its paler chin and throat, more 

 contrasted with the remaining lower parts, and in other characters 

 as does Ramphalcyon c. burmanica. Examples from A.ssam and 

 Manipur are -aid by Doctor Sharpe" to be intermediate between the 

 present race and Ramphalcyon capensis burmanica. It i- possible 



"Cat. Birds Brit Mas.. XVII, 1892, p. 102. 



