138 ALCEDINID^E. 



Genus CARIDAGRUS, Cab., 1860. 



Sexes differing in plumage, and one or both spotted. Bill 

 broader and tail shorter than in Sauropatis. Two or three 

 species are found in the Philippines, and one, a Malay form, 

 ranges into Southern Tenasserini. 



1049. Caridagrus concretus. The Sumatran Kingfisher. 

 Dacelo concreta, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 846 (1825). 

 Halcyon varia, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 101. 

 Todirhamphus varius, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 11 ; id. Cat. p. 47. 

 Halcyon concreta, Sharpe, Mon. Ale. p. 219, pi. 83 ; Hume $ Dav. 



S. F. vi, p. 76 ; Hume, Cat. no. 131 bis ; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 84 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 285. 

 Caridagrus concreta, Cab. fy Heine, Mus. Hein. ii, p. 161. 



Coloration. Male. Crown and nape deep green, paler, brighter, 

 and sometimes bluer on the nuchal border ; the lores and a band 

 from them, including the eye, passing above the ear-coverts 

 and round the nape black, forming a border to the green crown ; 

 a ferruginous superciliuin extending to the lores in front and to 

 above the ear-coverts behind ; another ferruginous band from the 

 gape including the ear-coverts and extending to the broad collar 

 round the hind neck, which is of the same colour but deeper in 

 tint ; a broad blue cheek-stripe below the ferruginous band ; a 

 narrow black collar behind the ferruginous collar ; interscapular 

 region, scapulars, and upper surface of wings and tail deep blue ; 

 wing-coverts and scapulars with brighter edges ; middle of lower 

 back, of rump, and generally of upper tail-coverts bright pale 

 cobalt-blue ; sides of lower back and rump black ; quills black, 

 except basal parts of outer webs above, which are blue, and the 

 inner borders, which are buff ; lower surface of tail-feathers also 

 black ; lower parts ferruginous, whitish or white in middle of 

 abdomen and on lower tail-coverts. 



Female. Back and wings above dull green, with pale buff spots 

 on the scapulars and wing-coverts. Young males have similar 

 pale spots, although except in being duller the plumage resembles 

 that of adults of the same sex. Nestlings of both sexes resemble 

 adults of the same sex. 



Bill above black, lower mandible and edges of upper chrome- 

 yellow ; irides deep brown ; legs chrome-yellow (Davisori). 



Length about 9'6 ; tail 2'5 ; wing 4-5, tarsus *75 ; bill from 

 gape 2'4. 



Distribution. Malay Peninsula with the extreme south of Ten- 

 asserim, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Habits, <$fc. According to Davison this Kingfisher is not found 

 near water, but in thick forest, and lives on lizards and large 

 wood-lice. 



G-enus CARCINEUTES, Cab., 1860. 



A small genus of only two species, one confined to Borneo, 

 while the other is found in Burma &c. Sexes very different in 



