484 ALCEDINID^:. 



PL Enl. p. 41. Alcedo atricapilla, Gm., Syst. Nat. i. p. 453. Halcyon atrica- 

 pillus, Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 226, No. 1 30. Entomobia pileata, Salvad, Ucc. 

 Born. p. IQ2. The BLACK-CAPPED PURPLE KINGFISHER. 



Whole head black, also the moustache ; whole upper parts glossy rich violet 

 purple, brighter on the rump ; tail rich violet purple ; all except the central 

 pair of feathers margined with black on the outer webs and tipped very 

 narrowly with whitish ; lesser and median wing coverts black ; primary 

 coverts blue ; primaries white, tinged with blue on the outer webs, black at 

 the ends ; shafts of the first six black ; secondaries and tertiaries blue on the 

 outer webs, all tipped black ; wing bar white, and conspicuous ; chin, throat 

 and neck white, tinged with fulvous ; breast pale fulvous, with crescentic 

 brown markings ; abdomen white, rest of lower surface, including the under 

 wing coverts rich fulvous ; bill dark red ; irides brown ; legs coral red. 



Length. 11-5 to 12 inches ; tail 3-5 to 37 ; wing 47 to 5-3 ; tarsus 07; 

 bill from gape 2*8. 



Hal. The Malabar Coast, Bengal, in the Sunderbuns, Ceylon, the Anda- 

 man Islands, China, Siam, Cochin-China, Philippines, Sumatra, Borneo, and 

 British Burmah, in which last province it said by Gates to be abundant in all 

 the maritime portions and up the larger rivers. It feeds both on fish and small 

 reptiles, also insects of sorts. 



1120. Halcyon ChloriS (Bodd.), Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 229, pi. 87 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 45 1 ; id., Sir. F. ii. p. 170 ; Armstrong, Str.F. iv. p. 306 ; 

 Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 78; Hume, Sir. F. vii. p. 169; viii- p. 86; 

 Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 381 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 187; id., B. Br. Burrn* ii. 

 p. 85. Alcedo chloris, Bodd., Tall. PL Enl. p. 40. Alcedo collaris, Scop. 

 Del. FL et Faun. Insub. ii. p. 90. Todiramphus collaris, Jerd., B. Ind. i. 

 p. 225, No. 132. Sauropatis chloris, Salvad, Ucc. Born. p. 103; Blyth, 

 B. Burm. p. 71. The WHITE-COLLARED KINGFISHER. 



Forehead, crown, nape, band under the ear coverts and eye, upper back and 

 scapulars green tinged with blue ; ear coverts and a narrow band encircling 

 the nape black ; lower back, rump, wing coverts and upper tail coverts bright 

 blue ; tail deeper blue ; quills dark brown, broadly edged with deep blue ; lores 

 black ; a band above these to the eye white ; the whole lower plumage, under 

 wing coverts and a broad collar round the neck pure white. (Oates.) Bill with 

 the upper mandible, and the tip and edge of lower one greenish black ; rest of 

 lower mandible pinkish white ; irides deep brown ; legs and feet plumbeous in 

 front ; behind and the soles, in some bluish, in some pinkish grey. (Davison.) 



Length. 9 to 9-5 inches; tail 27 to 2*9; wing 4 to 4-25 ; tarsus o'6 j bill 

 from gape 2'2. 



Hal. British Burmah, where, according to Oates, it is found generally 

 along the sea coast, penetrating inland for some distance at times. He shot a 



