2. Halcyon badius. 



Halcyon badia, Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 264 (Gaboon) ; 

 Hartl. Orn. West-Afr. p. 33 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. Pkilad. Acad. 

 1859, p. 34 (Ogowe Hiver) ; Heine, J.f. 0. 1860, p. 187; Hartl. 

 J. f. O. 1861, p. 105 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 90, no. 1086 (1869) ; 

 Sharpe, Monoffr. Alced. p. 159, pi. 58 (1869) ; id. Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 484 (Fautee) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 50 (Denkera) ; Sharpe S)- 

 Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii. p. 474 (1877 : Chissambo); Oust, 

 Kouv. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. Bull. p. 130 (1879 : Gaboon) ; Docar/e, Orn, 

 Angola, p. 538 (1881); Bilttik. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 165 

 (1885 : Liberia) ; id. op. cit. x. p. 69 (1888). 



.P Halcyon cancrophapa, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 134. 



Caucrophaga badia, Bp. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). 



Dacelo badia, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 28 (1863) ; id. op. cit. 

 Revue, p. 19 (1874). 



Adult. General colour above deep maroon-cbestnut, becoming 

 more dusky on tbe feathers of the mantle, upper back, and scapulars, 

 which are brownish with chestnut margins ; lesser wing-coverts 

 dull chestnut ; median and greater coverts black, with chestnut 

 edges ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the latter 

 whitish at the extreme base and bright cobalt near the base of the 

 outer web, forming an oblique broad bar across the wing ; back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts bright cobalt ; lateral upper tail- 

 coverts black, with blue margins ; tail-feathers blue, with black 

 shafts, and blackish along the inner margins and at the ends ; sides 

 of face, car-coverts, cheeks, and sides of neck deep maroon-chestnut ; 

 entire under surface of body white : the sides of the body blackish, 

 slightly washed with chestnut ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, with a dusky blackish patch near the edge of the wing 

 formed by the lower primary-coverts ; quills dusky below, white at 

 base : " bill vermilion-red ; feet brown ; iris dark brown " (J. Biitti- 

 Tcofer), Total length 8'3 inches, culmen 1*G5, wing 3-55, tail 2-1, 

 tarsus 0*4. 



Younger birds are similar to the adult, but having the white 

 feathers of the underparts fringed with dusky blackish lines. 



Hah. West Africa, from Liberia to the Congo. 



«, b. Ad. sk. Forests of Ashantee. Godfrey Lagden, Esq . 



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c. Ad. sk. Gold Coast (Kirby). Shelley Coll. 



d, e. Ad. ; /. Juv. Fantee. Sharpe Coll. 

 sk. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Fantee (//. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



i. Imm. sk. Gaboju {Sharpe Coll.). Tweeddale Coll. 



