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412. Ceryle rudis. Pied Kingfisher. 



Alcedo rudis, Lhm. Sijst. Nat. 12th ed. i, p. 181 (1766). 



Ceryle rudis, Bote, Isis, 1828, p. 316 ; Grill, K. Vet. Akad. Handl. 

 StochJiolm, ii, no. 10, p. 46 (1858) [Knysna] ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 245 [Natal] ; Kirl, Ibis, 1864, p. 325 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 67 

 (1867); Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 290 [Limpopo]; Sharj^e, Monogr. Alced. 

 p. 61, pi. 19 (1871); Gurney in Andersson^s B. Dmiiaraland, p. 59 

 (1872); BucMey, Ibis, 1874, p. 364 [Limpopo]; SJielley, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 69; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 110, 807 (1875-84); 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 262 [Potchefstroom] ; Oates, Matabeleland, 

 p. 303 (1881) ; Holub d Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afrikas, p. 64 (1882) ; 



Fig. 26.— Foot oi Ceryle rudis. x \. 



Butler, Feilden, and Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 206 [Natal] ; Shelley, Ibis, 

 1882, p. 244 [Mashonaland] ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 327 [Kroonstad] ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 109 (1892) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 115 

 (1896); Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 497 [Zululand] ; Woodward Bros. 

 Natal B. p. 90 (1899) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 103 [Zambesi] ; 

 Marshall, ibid., p. 248 [Mashonaland]; Woodward Bros, ibid., 

 p. 520 [St. Lucia Lake]. 

 " Isqula " of Natal Zulus. 



Descri])tion. Male. — General colour black and white, the crown, 

 which is crested, black slightly streaked with white ; nape white 

 forming a collar ; feathers of the mantle, wing- and tail-coverts 

 tipped and often edged with white ; primary quills with the basal 

 halves, tips and sometimes the external edge white, the rest black; 

 secondaries also black and white ; tail with the basal half and tip 

 white, and a broad subterminal baud of black ; lores a spot below 

 the eye and a streak above the ear-coverts white, feathers in front 

 of the eye and ear-coverts black ; below white with a broad band 



