CERYLE. 119 



b'. Tail longer than culmen. 

 c 1 '. Sexes alike. 

 a 3 . Bill red. 

 a 4 . Bill compressed, culmen flattened, 



with a groove on each side PELARGOPSIS, p. 128. 



b*. Bill not compressed, culmen rounded. 



5 . Primaries white at base HALCYON, p. 131. 



b'\ No white on primaries CALLIALCYON, p. 134. 



3 . Bill black SAUROPATIS, p. 135. 



d". Sexes dissimilar; bill some what depressed. 



c 3 . Bill black above ; plumage not barred. CARIDAGRUS, p. 138. 

 d 3 . Bill red throughout ; plumage barred. CARCINEUTES, p. 138. 



Genus CERYLE, Boie, 1828. 



Bill long, compressed ; culmen slightly curved, flattened or 

 rounded above, with a groove on each side. Wings rather pointed, 

 2nd or 3rd quill longest, 1st but little shorter. Tail longer than 

 culmen. 



This genus inhabits the Ethiopian and Oriental regions with the 

 Southern portion of the Palaearctic and the whole of America. 

 There are two Indian species, distinguished by their black and white 

 plumage. 



Key to the Species. 



Back not barred ; wing 5'5 C. varia, p. 119. 



Back transversely barred ; wing over 7 C. lugubris, p. 121. 



1033. Ceryle varia. The Indian Pied Kingfisher. 



Ceryle varia, Strickland, A. M. N. H. vi, p. 418 (1841) ; Salvad. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 585 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 112. 

 Ceryle rudis, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 49 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. p. 131 ; 



Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 232 ; Sharpe, Man. Ale. p. 61, pi. 19 ; Hume $ 



Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 179 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 170 ; iii, p. 52 ; 



xi, p. 47 ; id. Cat. no. 136 ; Blyth Sf Wald. Birds Burm. p. 71 ; 



Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 85 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 288; Anders. 



Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 580 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 77 ; id. in Hume's 



N. 8f E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 8 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind } p. 112 ; Barnes, 



Birds Bom. p. 103 ; (nee Alcedo rudis, Linn.). 



Koryala-Kilkila, H. ; Phatka Mach ranga, Karikata, Beng. ; Ung-ta- 

 brik, Lepcha ; Pelihudmoa Waturanuwa, Gomera Pelihuduwa, Cing. ; 

 Pane-nyin, Bu-dau-nen-jo, Burm. 



Coloration. Male. Crown, nape, and small nuchal crest black, 

 sparingly streaked with white ; lores and a long supercilium white, 

 a black eye-streak from the base of the bill to the ear-coverts, 

 connected by a narrow black line with the black gorget ; an imper- 

 fect white collar ; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts black edged 

 with white ; rump-feathers white, with large black spots ; primaries 

 with outer web and terminal portion of inner black, the rest white ; 

 secondaries white, with irregular black markings forming imperfect 

 bars ; tail-feathers white on the basal half and on^the tip, a broad 



