CAECINEUTE3. 139 



colour, the males barred with blue and black above, the females 

 with rufous and black. Feathers of nape slightly elongate. Bill 

 broad, comparatively short ; culmen straight, rounded. First 

 primary shorter than all the other primaries ; tail moderately long, 

 rounded at the end. 



This approaches Dacelo, the " laughing jackass " of Australia, in 

 structure, more than any other Indian or Burmese KingH slier does. 



1050. Carcineutes pulchellus. The Banded Kingjisher, 



Dacelo pulcbella, Horsf. Trans. Linn, Soc. xiii, p. 175 (1821) ; 



Blyfh, Cat. p. 46 ; Horsf. ^- M. Cat. p. 122. 

 Carcineutes pulchellus, Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. ii, p. 163 ; Sharpe, 



Mon. Ale. p. 251, pi. 96; Blyth Sf Wald. Birds Btirm. ^. 70 ; 



Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 79, 499 ; Hume, Cat. no. 132 ter ; 



Bingham, S. F. viii, p. 193 ; ix, p. 154 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 86 ; 



Sharjje, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 198. 

 Carcineutes amabilis, Hume, S. F. i, p. 474 ; Sharpe, S. F. ii, p. 484 ; 



Hume, ib. p. 485. 



Fig. 39. — Head of C. jmchellus, |. 



Coloration. Male. Broad frontal band, sides of head and neck, 

 and a more or less perfect collar round the hind neck chestnut ; 

 occiput and nape cobalt-blue, base of the feathers white, banded 

 with black near the blue tip ; remainder of upper plumage, including 

 the wings and tail, banded black and verditer-blue, the feathers 

 barred with white instead of blue except at the ends or exposed 

 portions ; quills black with white inner margins, the secondaries 

 with white spots forming imperfect bars ; lower parts white ; breast, 

 flanks, and under wing-coverts tinged with dull rufous ; tail-feathers 

 barred with white beneath. 



Female. Upper parts and sides of head and neck transversely 

 banded with black and pale brownish rufous, more narrowly on the 

 head and neck ; primaries brown, unhanded ; lower parts white, 

 with black spots forming imperfect bars on the breast and flanks. 



Bill vermilion ; irides purplish grey ; legs and feet dull pale green 

 (^Davison). 



Length about 8'5 ; tail 2*75; wing 3-5 ; tarsus '5 ; bill from gape 

 1-8. 



Distribution. Pegu (not Arakan) and Tenasserim, more common 

 in the latter ; the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java. 



Habits, Sfc. Generally found away from water in forest, feeding 

 on small lizards and various insects. Nidification unknown. 



