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ieee BEAVAN’S KINGFISHER. ' tg 
Length, 6:25 to 65; expanse, 9:25 to 9°75 ; wing 2°55 to 2°62 ; 
tail, 1-4 to 1°75 ; tarsus, 0°3 to 0°35 ; bill from gape, 19 to 2:05; 
bill at front, 1:4 to 1°6° 
Bill, g, black; orange at gape ; 9, deep red, clouded with dusky. 
Chin and throat creamy-white, washed faintly with rufous; 
remainder of under surface and the under tail-coverts deep 
bright rufous, paler in some than in others; feathers of the 
head black, with a penultimate bright blue band, those of the 
cheeks all bright blue ; back and upper tail-coverts bright blue ; 
wing-coverts black, washed with blue, each feather tipped with, 
bright blue ; scapulars and rectrices black, washed with blue. 
Major Butler had a specimen in his possession that was shot in 
the forests. west. of Belgaum; this is the only record I can 
find of its occurrence within the region. 
Genus, Ceryle. 
Bill long, straight, compressed, acute at tip; culmen obtuse, 
somewhat flattened, and margined on each side by an indented 
groove ; tail slightly lengthened, rounded; wings long, second and 
_third quills nearly equal; inner-toe longer than the hinder one 
which is very short, 
Ceryle rudis, Zin. 
136.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 232; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 456; Deccan, Stray Feathers’ 
Vol. IX, p. 383 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zuology of Sind, p. 112; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 61. 
THE PIED KINGFISHER. 
Length, 11 to 11°5; expanse, 18°5 to 20; wing, 5-4 to 5°8; 
tail, 3; tarsus, 0°5 to 0°7; bill at front, 2°3; bill from gape, 3:1. 
Bill black ; irides dark brown; legs and feet blackish-brown. 
Head and ears black, white-streaked, with also a white 
supercilium; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and wings black, 
white-edged ; lower parts and the sides of the neck white, 
with a streak of black down the sides of the neck from the 
ear-coverts; breast with a broad interrupted band of black in 
both sexes, and below this another complete but narrow band 
in the male only; wings with a white band, formed by the 
bases of some of the quills, and the greater-coverts; primary- 
coverts and winglet black; tail white at the base, broadly black 
at the end, and tipped white, 
The Pied Kingfisher is another very common species, generally 
distributed throughout our limits. 
It is a permanent resident and breeds from February to April, 
in holes pierced in the banks ofrivers; the eggs, four to six in 
number, are broad oval in shape, white in color, and are highly 
glossy. They measure 1:15 in length by about 0:92 in breadth. 
This Kingfisher never resorts to wells and tanks, as H. smyr- 
