HALCYON. 325 



287. HALCYON LINDSAYI (Vigors). 

 LINDSAY'S KINGFISHER. 



Dacelo lindsayi VIGORS, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97. 



Halcyon lindmyi SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 286; Hand- 

 List (1900), 2, 61; McGBEGOB and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 55. 



Luzon (Lindsay, Eydoux & Souleyet, Mollendorff, Cuming, Everett, Heriot, 

 Steer e 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 e}^e 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/ (Everett.) Length, 

 241 ; culmen, 47 ; wing, 106 ; tail, 79 ; tarsus, 16. 



"Adult female. Eesembles 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. 7 (Everett.} 

 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/ 7 (Sharpe.) 



