486 ALCEDINID^E. 



Gen. Carcineutes. Cab. et 



Bill wide, but less compressed at the tip, which is hooked ; other characters 

 as in Halcyon. 



1122. Carcineutes plllchellUS (Horsf.), Sharpe, Mon. Alced. 

 p. 251, pi. 96; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. p. 70; Hume and Davison, 

 Str. F. vi. p. 79; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 86; Bingham, Str. F. viii. p. 193 ; 

 id., Str. F. ix. p. 154. Dacelo pulchella, Horsf. y Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 

 175. Carcineutes amabilis, Hume, Str. F. i. p. 474; Sharpe, Sir. F. ii. 

 p. 484; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 5 1 - The BANDED KINGFISHER. 



Forehead, lores, cheek, ear coverts and collar on the nape chestnut ; crown 

 and nape bright smalt blue ; upper plumage black, barred with white, and 

 tipped with blue ; lesser wing coverts black, tipped with blue ; rump with the 

 white bars interrupted ; central tail feathers black, barred with blue and with 

 some white spots on the inner webs ; primaries and secondaries black, the latter 

 with white spots on both webs ; chin, throat, upper breast, abdomen, vent and 

 under tail coverts white ; sides of the body and lower breast buff or buffish. 

 The female is chestnut, barred with black ; the spots on the quills are 

 also chestnut ; lower plumage white. Bill bright red ; eyelids salmon-red ; 

 irides yellowish white ; legs plumbeous, tinged with greenish. 



Length. 9-2 to 9-5 inches; tail 3'5 ; wing 3*5; tarsus 0-6; bill from 

 gape 2. 



Hab. British Burmah in Pegu and Tenasserim. Ranges down the Malay 

 Peninsula and occurs ia Sumatra and Java. Like the last, it is not found in 

 the vicinity of water, and feeds on lizards, woodlice, &c. 



Gen. Ceyx-Lacep. 



Bill comparatively large, wide, barely grooved ; gonys inclined upwards ; 

 culmen flattish ; tail short ; feet with only three toes, two in front and one 

 behind. 



1123. Ceyx tridactyla (Pallas.), Jerd., B. Ind. \. p. 229, 



No. 133; Sharpe, Mon Alced. p. 119, pi. 40; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 51 ; 

 Blyth, B. Burm. p. 71 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 303 ; Hume and Dav.> Str. F. 

 vi. p. 80 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 86; Bingham, Str. F. viii. p. 193; ix. 

 p. 155 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 187. The THREE-TOED KINGFISHER. 



Lores and base of upper mandible blue-black ; forehead, crown and nape 

 rufous, glossed with black ; cheeks, ear coverts and lower plumage buffy 

 yellow, tinged with rufescent on the breast; behind the ear coverts a bluish- 

 black spot and below it a patch of white ; upper back black, streaked with 

 lustrous blue ; lower back, rump and upper tail coverts rich rufous with a 

 lilac gloss; scapulars and lesser wing coverts black, tipped and margined 

 with blue ; greater coverts and quills black ; the secondaries and tertiaries 



