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ALCEDINIDiE. 



Young. Differs in the same way as the young of B. semlcceruleus : 

 " bill orange-r(;d, black at tip and base, feet dark purplish brown, 

 orange at the back of the feet and soles ; iris dark hazel " (F. Oates). 



Hah. South Africa, from the Transvaal to Central East Africa, and 

 to Benguela and Ovampo-Land on the west. 



a. luim. sk. 



b. 2 ad. sk. 



c. 2 ad. sk. 



Gt-ruah, Matabele-Land {F. Oates). 



Umvuli River, Mashona-Laiid, Oct. 2 



{J. S. Jameson). 

 Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Sept. 21 



( T. Ai/res). 



d. 2 imm.sk. Oudonga, Ovampo-Land, Dec. 22(6'. 



J. Andersson). 



e. Imm. sk. Bengueln. 



AV.E.&C.G.Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Gurney Coll. 



Sharps Coll. 



Monteiro Coll. 



9. Halcyon albiventris. 



Martin-pecheur de I'isle de Lu(,^ou, Su>in. Voy. Noui\ Guin. p. 65, 

 pi. 31 (1776). 



Alcedo albiventris, Scoj). Del. Flor. et Faun. Iiisub. ii. p. DO (178G). 



Alcedo atricapilla, var. (nee Gm.), Lath. hid. Orn. i. p. 252 (1790). 



Dacelo striata, Drap. Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. x. p. 22-3 (1826) ; id. 

 Diet. Class. Sei. Nat. vii. p. 156 (1841). 



Dacelo vaillanti, Temm. M8S. in Mus. Lu(/d. 



Dacelo fuscicapilla, Lafi: Reo. et May. de Zuol. 1833, pi. 18. 



Halcvou fuscicapilla, Graii, Gen. B. i. p. 79 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 54 (1848); Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 154 (1850); Cass. Cat. 

 ILilc. Philad. Mus. p. 8 (1852) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 243 (Natal), 

 1860, p. 204; Lai/ard, B. S.Afr. p. 63 (1867) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 277 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 91, no. 1092 (1869). 



Chelicutia fuscicapilla, Reichenb. Handb., Alced. p. 39, Taf. 424. 

 tigs. 3152-53 (1851) ; Bp. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). 



Halcyon vaillanti, Miill. J.f. 0. 1865, p. 7. 



Halcyon albiventris. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 79 (1846) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 

 1867, p. 328 (Natal); Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 282; Ayres, t. c. 

 p. 290 (Limpopo) ; Sharpe, Monoyr. Alced. p. 177, pi. 05 (1870) ; 

 Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 364 (Transvaal) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 68 

 (Natal) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 115, 807 (1875-84) ; 

 Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 198 (Lydeuburg) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 292 

 (Rusteuburg) ; Sharpe in Oates' Matahcle-Land, App. p. 303 

 (1881) ; Holub Sf Pelz. Beitr. Orn. SMafr. p. 63 (1882) ; Butler, 

 Feilden, df Raid, Zool. 1882, p. 207 (Ladysmith). 



Alcedo fuscicapilla, Grill, Zool. Ayiteckn.yi]). 11,46 (1859: Knysna). 



Pagurothera fuscicapilla. Cab. ^" Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 153 

 (1860). 



Dacelo albiventris, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 31 (1863) ; id. 

 Revue, p. 21 (1874). 



Adult male. Mantle, scapulars, and wing-coverts black; entire 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts light cobalt ; tail light greenish 

 cobalt, with black shaft-lines and dusky margins to the feathers ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts cobalt-blue, dusky at the ends ; 

 quills blackish, blue for more than the basal third, the inner web 

 ochrcous buff for the most part ; secondaries almost entirely blue, 



