86 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



An allied species is H. occipitalis from the Nice-bar Islands. It differs in 

 having a broad buff band surrounding the crown of the head from the 

 forehead to the nape. 



There are many other members of this genus, but none likely to occur 

 in Burmah. 



Genus CAKCINEUTES, Cab. et Hein. 



475. CARCINEUTES PULCHELLUS. 

 THE BANDED KINGFISHER. 



Dacelo pulchella, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 175. Carcineutes pulchellus, 

 Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 251, pi. 96; Bl. $ Wold. B. Burm. p. 70; Hume # Dav. 

 S. F. vi. p. 79 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bingham, S. F. viii. p. 193, ix. p. 154. 

 Carcineutes amabilis, Hume, S. F. i. p. 474 ; Sharpe, S. F. ii. p. 484 ; Hume, 

 S. F. iii. p. 61. 



Description. Male. Forehead, lores, cheeks and ear-coverts, produced 

 backwards to meet on the nape and forming a broad collar, chestnut; 

 crown and nape brilliant smalt-blue; the blue is somewhat broken in 

 places, owing to the white of the feathers showing through ; back, scapulars, 

 tertiaries, median and greater wing-coverts black, barred with white and 

 terminated with blue ; lesser wing-coverts black, tipped with blue ; rump 

 black, tipped with blue, the white bars interrupted ; upper tail-coverts like 

 the back; central tail-feathers black, barred with blue and with some white 

 marks on the inner webs at the end of the blue bars ; the other rectrices 

 barred with blue on the outer webs and with white on the inner ; primaries 

 black ; secondaries black, with white spots on both webs, which become 

 bars on the tertiaries ; chin, throat and upper breast white ; lower breast 

 tinged with buff; sides -of the body buff; abdomen, vent and under tail- 

 coverts white. 



The female has the whole upper plumage, tail, wing-coverts, scapulars, 

 tertiaries and the sides of the head and neck pale chestnut barred with 

 black ; primaries black ; secondaries black, with chestnut spots on both 

 webs ; entire lower plumage white ; a few black broken bars on the sides 

 of the breast; in immature birds these bars are more marked. 



Bill bright red ; mouth red ; eyelids and orbital skin pale salmon-red ; 

 iris yellowish white ; legs greenish brown ; claws horn -colour. 



Length 9'2 inches, tail 3'5, wing 3'5, tarsus '6, bill from gape 2. The 

 female is quite as large. 



Some birds have no chestnut collar round the neck ; and the male which 

 I procured on the Pegu hills, and which Mr. Hume named C. amabilis, 



