306 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Species. 



«'. Wings dirty green; back, rvinip. and upper tail-coverts greenish cobalt; head 

 and wing-coverts spotted witii greenish blue bengalensis (p. 306) 



a". Wings black; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts cobalt-blue; head and wing- 

 coverts spotted with purplish blue meninting (p. 307) 



20<». ALCEDO BENGALENSIS (^melin. 

 ASIATIC KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo heugaloisis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. (17S8). 1, 450; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (190G), 52. 



Alcedo ispida Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 141 (part) ; Hand- 

 List (1900), 2, 50 (part); Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 

 3, 122, fig. 35 (head); Gates and Reid, Cat. Bird.s' Eggs (1903), 3, 

 .33 (part). 



Su-sul'-bof, Manila; nia-ntin-di-ta, Calayan; sa-cal', Lubang. 

 Balabac (Steere Exp., Everett) ; Basilan {Steere Exp., Bourns <(• Worcester) ; 

 Bantayan (McGregor) ; Batan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Caga- 

 yancillo (McGregor) ; Cagayan Sulu (McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns d Wor- 

 cester, McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Eve- 

 rett, Bourns d- Worcester. McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere 

 Exp.. Bourns d- Worcester) ; Leyte (Everett) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Gu- 

 ming, Meyer, Everett, Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Masbate 

 (Hteere Exp., Bourns d Worcester); Mindanao (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp.. 

 Celestino, GoodfcUoiv) ; Mindoro (Schmacker, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor. 

 Porter) ; Negros (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan 

 (Lempriere, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay 

 (Bourns d Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar (Steere Exp.. 

 Bourns d Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester); Siquijor (Bourns d 

 Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Guilleniard, Bourns d Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns 

 d Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns d Worcester); Verde (McGregor) . Malay 

 and Indian Peninsulas. Buimese i)rovinces, Moluccas and Greater Sunda Islands, 

 China, Hainan. 



Adult male. — Upper parts, including- \vin<rs, dark greenisli lilue; back, 

 rump, and tail-coverts light cobalt-blue ; feathers of head banded with 

 cobalt; median wing-coverts tipped with cobalt; lores and a l)and to ear- 

 coverts deep ferruginous, followed by a white patch on side of neck; a 

 wide l)and from lower mandible to below white patch, greenish l)lue, 

 spotted with cobalt ; lower parts deep ferruginous or orange-rufous but 

 chin and throat huffy white; under wing-coverts and axillars similar to 

 breast but slightly paler. Bill black, dusky red along base; feet bright 

 red; nails dark brown ; iris dark brown. A nude from Mindoro measures: 

 Length, 168; wing, 71 ; tail, '.Vi; culmen from base, ;55> ; tarsus, 9. 



Adult female. — Similar to the male. A specimen from Mindoro meas- 

 ures: Length, 17<); wing, 75; tail, 34; culmen from l)ase, 40; tarsus, 9. 



Young. — Similar to the adult l)ut duller; lower i)arts with littU^ or no 

 ferruginous; throat and chin white; breast and abdomen ashy or dusky 

 brown. 



