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287. HALCYON LINDSAYI (Vigors). 
LINDSAY’S KINGFISHER. 
Dacelo lindsayi Vicors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97. 
Halcyon lindsayi SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 286; Hand- 
List (1900), 2, 61; McGrecor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 55. 
Luzon (Lindsay, Eydoux & Souleyet, Méllendorff, Cuming, Everett, Heriot, 
Steere Exp., Bridges). 
“Adult male.—Above green, a little brighter on the center of lower 
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts; lateral upper tail-coverts and sides 
of lower back and rump dingy green, the scapulars, mantle, and wing- 
coverts each having a distinct spot of ocherous-buff ; quills brown, exter- 
nally edged with fulvous, secondaries greener, and terminally spotted with 
ocherous like the scapulars; tail-feathers dull greenish brown, fringed 
with sandy buff at the ends, the penultimate feather notched with buff 
on the inner web, the outermost one on both webs, producing a banded 
appearance; head green, the forehead with a few cinnamon feathers; 
lores black, surmounted by a streak of pale cinnamon-buff reaching above 
the eye and continued into a line of bright cobalt, which encircles the 
hinder crown and nape; feathers round the eye black, continued into a 
band which encircles the hind neck, and is followed by a band of 
cinnamon feathers, fringed with black; sides of face and ear-coverts 
cinnamon; throat pale cinnamon, separated from the band on the sides 
of the face by a broad band of bright cobalt, which occupies the cheeks 
and lateral margin of the throat; fore neck and breast mottled, the 
feathers being white, margined with green, the green edges diminishing 
in size on the lower breast, till they gradually disappear on the abdomen, 
which, with the under tail-feathers, is pure white; sides of body like 
the breast; thighs blackish, tipped with ocherous; under wing-coverts, 
axillars, and quill-lining fawn-buff. ‘Bill black, the culmen and under 
mandible yellow; feet light green; iris brown.’ (Hverett.) Length, 
241; culmen, 47; wing, 106; tail, 79; tarsus, 16. 
“Adult female.—Resembles the male, but the band encircling the crown 
is green instead of blue; the broad band on the cheeks is also green, not 
blue; the throat is white; and the green edgings to the breast-feathers 
are less pronounced. ‘Bill black, the culmen and mandible chrome- 
yellow; feet light. green; claws horn-yellow; iris brown.’ (/verett.) 
Length, 249; culmen, 47; wing, 109; tail, 89; tarsus, 16. 
“Young male.—Like the adult male, but with smaller ocherous spots 
on the upper surface; the band round the crown and the cheek-stripe 
not so blue as in the adult, but not so green as in the female; under 
surface as in adult, but with a fulvescent tinge throughout. 
“Young female.—Duller than the adult female, and with smaller 
ocherous spots; otherwise like the old female, and having a green band 
round the crown.” (Sharpe.) 
