460 CER YLEHALC YON 



659. HIMALAYAN PIED KINGFISHER. 

 CERYLE LUGUBRIS. 



Ceryh hujulrls (Temm.), PI. Col. 548 (1834) ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. 

 p. 49 ; id. Cat. B. Br. Mus. xvii. p. 115 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, 

 iii. p. 121 ; Bianchi and Berez. Ptitx. Gan-su, p. 46 ; C. guttata 

 (Vigors), P.Z.S. 1830, p. 22 (nee. Bodd) ; Gould, Cent. Himal. B. 

 pi. 5 ; Sliarpe, Monogr. Alced. p. 57, pi. 18 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. 

 Emp. p. 174. 



Mashi-Bdgh, Hindu.; Jel. butarcf, Chamba : Ung-ka-zhu, 

 Lepch. ; Kav:a-cho, Jap. 



ad. (Japan). Head to below the eyes with crest black, spotted and 

 marked with white ; a broad collar ; cheeks and under par;* white ; upper 

 parts, wings, and tail black, or greyish black, barred and spotted with 

 white ; a stripe down the sides of the throat and a broad gorget of black 

 spots, tinged on the wider portions with rufescent brown ; flanks and 

 under tail-coverts barred or spotted with blackish ; bill black, greenish at 

 the base ; legs olive-green ; iris dark brown. Culraen 2*8, wing 7 -4, 

 tail 4*2, tarsus 0'5 inch. The female lacks the rufous on the throat or 

 gorget, and has rufescent brown under wing-coverts and axillaries. 



Hob. The Himalayas west to Kashmir to an elevation of 

 7000 feet, also in the hills south of Assam and those of 

 Tenasserim, but not recorded from the intervening country; 

 South-east Kan-su ; Central China ; Japan, resident in the 

 southern islands, but a partial migrant in Yesso. 



Extremely shy and wild, it is difficult of approach, and is 

 usually seen in pairs. It sits on a bush or bough overhanging 

 the water in shady places, watching for fish on which it feeds 

 entirely. It has two notes, one like the other Kingfishers', but 

 less quickly repeated, the other a guttural croak which serves 

 as a call-note. It breeds from April to June, excavating a 

 nest-chamber at the end of a hole about 2 feet long, and 

 deposits 3 to 4 roundish glossy white eggs of great size. 



HALCYON, Swains., 1820. 



660. KUDDY KINGFISHER. 



HALCYON COROMANDUS. 



Halcyon coromandus (Lath.), Ind. Orn. i. p. 252 (1790) ; Sharpe, Monogr. 

 Alced. p. 155, pi. 57 ; id. Cat, B. Br. Mus. xvii. p. 217 ; Seebohm, 

 B. Jap. Emp. p. 173 ; (David and Oust.) Ois. Chine, p. 76 ; H. Ma- 

 rina ; Swains, Classif. of B. ii. p. 335 (1837) ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. 

 Birds, iii. p. 134. 



