306 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
° Species. 
a, Wings dirty green; back, rump, apd upper tail-coverts greenish cobalt; head 
and wing-coverts spotted with"¥feenish blue.................... bengalensis (p. 306) 
a*, Wings black; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts cobalt-blue; head and wing- 
coverts spotted with purplish blue..............1.0.2--.----..--000.--. meninting (p. 307) 
269. ALCEDO BENGALENSIS Gmelin. 
ASIATIC KINGFISHER. 
Alcedo bengalensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, 450; McGrercor and 
WorCcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 52. 
Alcedo ispida SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 141 (part) ; Hand- 
List (1900), 2, 50 (part) ; BLANForD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 
3, 122, fig. 35 (head); Oates and Rem, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 
33 (part). 
Su-sul’-bot, Manila; ma-min-di-ta, Calayan; sa-cal’, Lubang. 
Balabae (Steere Hap., Everett); Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; 
3antayan (McGregor); Batan (McGregor); Bohol (Hverett, McGregor) ; Caga- 
yancillo (McGregor) ; Cagayan Sulu (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns € Wor- 
cester, McGregor) ; Calayan (Mc@regor) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Eve- 
rett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Guimaras (Steere 
Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; Leyte (Hverett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Cu- 
ming, Meyer, Bverett, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Masbate 
(Steere Eaxp., Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Steere, Everett, Steere Ezxp., 
Celestino, Goodfellow); Mindoro (Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, 
Porter); Negros (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Keay); Palawan 
(Lempriere, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White) ; Panay 
(Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Steere Ezxp., 
Bourns & Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Bourns & 
Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (@Gwillemard, Bourns & Worcester); Tablas (Bourns 
¢& Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Verde (McGregor). Malay 
and Indian Peninsulas, Burmese provinces, Moluccas and Greater Sunda Islands, 
China, Hainan. 
Adult male.—Upper parts, including wings, dark greenish blue; back, 
rump, and tail-coverts light cobalt-blue; feathers of head banded with 
cobalt; median wing-coverts tipped with cobalt; lores and a band to ear- 
coverts deep ferruginous, followed by a white patch on side of neck; a 
wide band from lower mandible to below white patch, greenish blue, 
spotted with cobalt; lower parts deep ferruginous or orange-rufous but 
chin and throat buffy white; under wing-coverts and axillars similar to 
breast but slightly paler. Bill black, dusky red along base; feet bright 
red ; nails dark brown; iris dark brown. A male from Mindoro measures: 
Length, 168; wing, 71; tail, 32; culmen from base, 39; tarsus, 9. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male. A specimen from Mindoro meas- 
ures: Length, 170; wing, 75; tail, 34; culmen from base, 40; tarsus, 9. 
Young.—Similar to the adult but duller; lower parts with little or no 
ferruginous; throat and chin white; breast and abdomen ashy or dusky 
brown. 
