HALCYON. 325 



287. HALCYON LINDSAYI (Vigors). 



LINDSAYS KINGFISHER. 



Dacelo lindsayi Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soe. ( 1831 ), 97. 



Halcyon lindsayi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. ilus. (1892), 17, 286; Hand- 

 List (1900), 2, 61; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 55. 



Luzon (Lindsay, Eydoux it kiouleyet, Mijllcndurff, Cuming. Everett, Heriot, 

 Hteere Exp., Bridges ) . 



"Adult male. — Above green, a little brighter on the center of lower 

 back, ninip, and upper tail-coverts; lateral u]:)per tail-coverts and sides 

 of lower back and rump dingy green, the scapulars, mantle, and wing- 

 coverts each having a distinct spot of ocherous-buff ; quills brown, e.xter- 

 nally edged with fulvous, secondaries greener, and terminally spotted with 

 ocherous like the scapulars; tail-feathers dull greenish brown, fringed 

 with sandy l)uff at the ends, the penultimate feather notched with Iniff 

 on the inner web, the outermost one on both webs, producing a banded 

 aj)pearance; head green, the forehead with a few cinnamon feathers; 

 lores black, sunnounted hy a streak of pale cinnamon-buff reaching above 

 the eye and continued into a line of bright cobalt, which encircles the 

 hinder crown and nape ; feathers round the eye black, continued into a 

 band which encircles the hind neck, and is followed by a band of 

 cinnamon feathers, fringed with black ; sides of face and ear-coverts 

 cinnamon; throat pale cinnamon, separated from the band on the sides 

 of the face by a broad band of bright col)alt, which occupies the cheeks 

 and lateral margin of the throat; fore neck and breast mottled, the 

 feathers l)eing white, margined with green, the green edges diminishing 

 in size on the lower breast, till they gradually disappear on the abdomen, 

 which, with the under tail-feathers, is pure white: sides of l)ody like 

 the l)reast ; thighs l)lackish. tipped with ocherous ; under wing-coverts, 

 axillars, and (|uill-lining fawn-butf. 'Bill bUick, the culmen and under 

 mandible yellow: feet light green; iris brown.' (Errrcft.) Length, 

 241 ; culmen, 47: wing, 10(j; tail, 7U ; tarsus, Kj. 



"Adult female. — Resembles the male, but the band encircling the crown 

 is green instead of blue; the l)road band on the cheeks is also green, not 

 blue; the throat is white; and the green edgings to the breast-featliers 

 are less jjronounced. 'Bill black, the culmen and mandible chrome- 

 yellow; feet light green; claws horn-yellow; iris brown." (Everett.) 

 Length, 249; culmen. 47; wing, 100; (ail, .S!» ; tarsus. l(i. 



"YouiKj iiKile.—lAke the adult nuile, but witli smaller ocherous spots 

 on the \ipper surface; the band round the crown and the cheek-stripe 

 not so blue as in the adult, but not so green as in the fenuile; under 

 surface as in adult, but witli a fulvescent tinge throughout. 



"Yomuj female. — Duller than the adult female, and with smaller 

 ocherous spots; othenvise like the old female, and having a green band 

 i-ound the crown." (Sharpe.) 



