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Species. 



a\ Wings dirty green; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts greenish cobalt; head 

 and wing-coverts spotted with greenish blue bengalensis (p. 306) 



a 2 . Wings black; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts cobalt-blue; head and wing- 

 coverts spotted with purplish blue meninting (p. 307) 



269. ALCEDO BENGALENSIS Gmelin. 

 ASIATIC KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo bengalensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, 450; MCGREGOR and 

 WORCESTER, 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); GATES and REID, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 

 33 (part). 



Su-sul'-bot, Manila; ma-min-di-ta, Calayan; sa-cal', Lubang. 



Balabac (Steere Exp., Everett) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Bantayan (McGregor); Batan ( McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor)-, Caga- 

 yancillo (McGregor); Cagayan Sulu (McGregor); Calamianes (Bourns d Wor- 

 cester, McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Eve- 

 rett, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Leyte (Everett) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Cu- 

 ming, Meyer, Everett, Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Masbate 

 (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; Mindanao (Steere, Everett, Steere Exp., 

 Celestino, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Schmacker, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor, 

 Porter) ; Negros (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan 

 (Lempriere, Platen, Whitehead, Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay 

 (Bourns d Worcester) ; Romblon (Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar (Steere Exp., 

 Bourns d Worcester) ; Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester) ; Siquijor (Bourns d 

 Worcester, Celestino) ; Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns d Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns 

 d Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns d 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 witli 

 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. 



