HALCYONINZ: 99 
Bill dark blood-red, dusky at tip, lighter on gonys; irides, 
brown ; legs and feet coral-red. 
_ Head : lores, cheeks, and hind-neck in part light olive or fulvous- 
brown ; the sides and lower part of the back of the neck buff; © 
lower part ef hind-neck and scapulars dingy brownish-green ; 
the wing-coverts, quills, the sides of the lower part of the back, 
upper tail-coverts, and tail dull bluish-green ; the primary quills 
tipped dusky-black and the inner webs of all dusky; the back, 
from the shoulders to the rump, light silky azure-blue ; chin 
and throat pale yellowish-white, passing into the buff of the 
sides of the neck ; rest of the lower plumage orange-buff, deepest 
on the flanks. 
The young has the buff of the lower parts edged with brown, 
and the colors generally duller. 
The Brown-headed Kingfisher occurs as a somewhat rare 
straggler in the Deccan. I met with it at Neemuch, and Colonel 
Swinhoe found it near Mhow, Central India. It has not been 
recorded from Guzerat, neither does it occur in Sind. 
Genus, Halcyon, Swains. 
Bill long, straight, deep, and broad, somewhat quadrangular ; 
eulmen, in some, inclining towards the tip, near which the 
margin is slightly sinuated; lower mandible angulated ; gonys 
ascending towards the tip ; wing rather short, third quill longest, 
fourth and fifth nearly equal; tail short, rounded, or even; feet with 
the outer toe nearly as long as the middle one, syndactyle for 
more than half its length ; scales of the tarsus obsolete. 
Halcyon smyrnensis, Zin. 
129.—Haleyon fuscus, Bodd.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
I, p. 224; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 456; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 382; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 110 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 61. 
THE WHITE-BREASTED KINGFISHER. 
Length, 105 to 115; expanse, 1425 to 165; wing, 4°5 
to 5; tail, 3:2 to 37; tarsus, 0°6; bill at front, 2°25 ; bill at gape, 
27 to 3. 
Bill rich coral-red, dusky at tip ; irides brown ; feet vermilion-red. 
Head: face, sides of neck and body, abdomen, and under tail- 
coverts, deep rich brown-chesnut; scapulars and tertiaries dul- 
greenish-blue ; back, ramp and upper tail-coverts bright ccerulean 
blue; wings, with the lesser-coverts, chesnut, median-coverts 
‘black, and the greater-coverts and winglet dull blue ; quills blue, 
with a broad black tip diminishing to the last primary ; and the 
inner webs of all dusky black, with a broad oblique white bar 
on the inner webs of the primaries, extending over nearly the 
whole feather in the last primary, small in extent on the first ; 
