200 BULLETIN i86, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEM 



CERYLE LUGUBRIS GUTTULATA Stejneger 



Indian Greater Pied Kingfisher 



Ceryle guttulata Stejnegek, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 15, 1892, pp. 294-295. 

 New name for Alcedo guttatus Vigors 1831 (Himalayas; type locality re- 

 stricted to Cachar, by Stuart Baker, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 28, 

 1922, p. 314 ; corrected to Simla-Almora district, by Ticehurst and Whistler, 

 Ibis, 1924, p. 471), not Alcedo guttata Boddaert, 1783. 



Megaceryle lugubris guttulata, Rilky, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 169 (Mae 

 Kong Ka valley, Thattafang). 



Ceryle lugubris scutulata, Gbeenway, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1940, p. 193 (Doi 

 Ang Ka). 



The greater pied kingfisher is found only along the broadest of 

 mountain streams, in uninhabited districts west of the Khun Tan range. 

 Since there are few torrents of suitable size in our provinces, the bird 

 is local in distribution and nowhere common. It has been collected 

 on the Mae Klang (Doi Ang Ka) as high as 4,300 feet. I have a 

 specimen from Doi Mae Kong Ka (in the hills between Mae Sariang 

 and the Sal win) and have seen a pair on a rushing stream in the hills 

 southwest of Wiang Pa Pao and another on the Mae Mao (at the 

 foot of Doi Pha Horn Pok). 



This species is usually seen at rest on some branch that overhangs 

 the stream or perched upon a rock rising from the midst of the tur- 

 bulent water. In flight it utters a harsh, rattling sound much like 

 the call of the American O. alcyon. 



Greenway records that three nestlings were collected by the members 

 of the Asiatic Primate Expedition at 4,300 feet on Doi Ang Ka, April 

 14, 1937. 



The male has the upper half of the head and the conspicuous crest 

 black spotted with white ; a broad white nuchal collar connected with 

 a white band on each side of the head from the base of the bill ; the 

 remaining upperparts slaty gray, barred everywhere with white ; the 

 underparts white, but with a line of black streaks at either side of the 

 throat and neck connected with a broad breast band formed by black 

 and dull rufous spots, and with black bars at the sides of the abdomen 

 and on some of the under tail coverts. The female differs in having 

 the axillaries and under wing coverts pale rufous. 



This and the preceding species are our only crested kingfishers. 



RAMPHALCYON CAPENSIS BURMANICA (Bowdler Sharpe) 



Burmese Stork-billed Kingfisher 



Pelargopsis burmanica Bowdlek Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, pp. 67-68 

 ("Tavoy, Tenasserim Provinces . . . Burma . . . Siam . . . Andaman 

 Islands" ; type specimen from Toungoo, fide Bowdler Sharpe, Catalogue of 

 the birds in the British Museum, vol. 17, 1892, p. 105) . 



