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become lighter with age. The sides of the face aud fore neck are 

 also dusky brown, leaving the throat pure white, as well as the 

 lower breast. These colours, however, become bleached, like the head 

 aud neck, to ashy white. 



Young birds are freckled on the fore neck and chest with grey, and 

 have the fore neck ashy, with bars of grey across ; the upper 

 plumage, too, is brown, as in the female. 



Ilab. West Africa from Sonegambia to the Congo and Angola ; 

 N.E. Africa and East Africa generally, extending to Arabia. 



Major Tucketts [P.]. 

 Sir E. Sabine [P.]. 

 H. F. Blissett, Esq. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



F. Nicholson, Esq. 



Forbes Coll. 



F. BohudorfE [C.J. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe and Shelley 



Colls. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 AV.T. Elauford,Esq. 



[C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Dr.Hildebrandt[C.]. 

 Sbellev Coll, 

 Shelley Coll. 

 H. C. V. Hunter, 



Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Halcyon erythrogaster. 



Crab-eating Kingfisber, var. /3, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p, 1G9 



(1782). 

 Alcedo senegalensis, var. g, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 456 (1788). 

 Alcedo senegalensis, var. b, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 249 (1790) ; Bonn. 



et Vieill. Enc. Mcth. i. p. 283 (1823). 

 Halcyon erythrogastra, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 22 : id. Voy. ' Beaylc,' 



