240 ALCEDINTDiE. 



Halcyon chelicutensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 569 ; id. Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 283; Fmsch iSf Hartl. ViUj. Ostafr. p. 163 (1873); Sharpe, 

 Mono<p-. Alced. p. 183, pi. 67 (1870) ; Guniey in Anderss. B. Dam.- 

 Ld. p. 57 (1862); Shaipe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 712 (Mombasa) ; Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 365 (Transvaal) ; Shmye, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. 

 pp. 117, 807 (1875-84); Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 101 (1877); 

 AicJiuls. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 354 ( Dar-es-Salaam) ; Cab. J. f. O. 1875, 

 p. 235; Fisc/wr Si- Reichen. t. c. p. 255; iid. J. f. O. 1879, p. 344 

 (Malindi) : Sharpe in Oates' Matabele-Ld., App. p. 303 (1881); 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 124 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 567 (Melindi, 

 Pangani, Usambara Mts.) ; id. Ibis, 1882, p. 244 (Uimuli R.) ; 

 Bohm, J. f. 0. 1883, p. 172 (Kakoma) ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. 

 Brem. viii. p. 207 (1883 : Wakkala) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Sac, 

 Zool. xvii. p. 435 (1884 : Dem Bakir) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orti. 

 i. p. 364 (1884: Zanzibar, Pangani, Arusclia, Naiwascha) ; id. 

 J.f. O. 1885, p. 126 (VVapokomo-Land); Hartert, J.f. O. 1886, 

 p. 595 (Loko) ; Oust. Bill. haut. Etudes, xxxi. art. x. p. 3 (188G : 

 Somali) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p 60 (Usandawi, Wembaere, 

 Useg-ua) ; Matschie, t. c. p. 151 (Liialaba, Luvule) ; Reichen. t. n. 

 p. 304 (Leopoldville) ; Souza, Jorn. Lisb. xi. pp. 83, 158 (1887); 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 297 (Tangani) ; id. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 537 

 (Useri River) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1889, p. 275 (Quilimane, Mbusini, 

 Usegua) ; Souza, Jor7i. Lisb. (2) i. p. 44 (1889 : Hiiilla). 



Dacelo tschelicutensis, Hevyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 192 (1869). 



Adult male. Head light brown, the feathers broadly streaked down 

 the centre with darker brown ; a distinct eyebrow of sandy buif ; a 

 streak above the ear-coverts black, as also a collar round the hinder 

 part of the head ; sides of neck and a collar round the hind neck bufFy 

 white, with edges and streaks of blackish brown ; mantle, scapulars, 

 and wing-coverts brown, the latter with lighter margins, a few edged 

 with greenish blue among the inner series of lesser coverts ; entire 

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

 blue, edged with dusky blackish and with a blackish shaft ; bastard- 

 wing, primar}--covcrts, and quills greenish cobalt, the latter dusky 

 blackish on the inner webs and towards the end of the feathers, with 

 white bases ; cheeks and ear-coverts ochreous buff, narrowly streaked 

 with blackish shaft-lines ; throat white ; remainder of under surface 

 of body ochreous buff, deepening on the flanks and under tail-coverts, 

 the feathers of the fore neck and breast varied with narrow fringes 

 and shaft-lines of black to each feather ; sides of body more broadly 

 streaked with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 slightly tinged with buff; base of quills also white ; lower primary- 

 coverts black, forming a patch : " bill reddish brown on the upper 

 mandible and orange-red on the lower one ; feet yellowish ; iris 

 claret-coloured " (C. J. Andcrsson). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 

 l't3, wing 2-95, tail 1*7, tarsus 0'4. 



Yonnff. Similar to the adult, but more thickly marked below with 

 dusky streaks and edgings to the feathers, these markings extending 

 further down the breast than in the older birds. The colours are 

 also everywhere duller. 



The southern birds are the largest and also the palest in colour 

 below, with more white edgings to the wing-coverts and a somewhat 



