HALCYON SENEGALOIDES.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate LXIIL— Male. 



H. capitc fusco-^riseo ; corpore supra ccEruleo-beryllino, subtus albido; reniigibiis tricoloratis, — cosnileo- 



beryllino, alboque brunneo ; caudu dorsoque concoloribus ; rostro rubro ; pedibus purpureo-rubris. 

 LoNGiTUDo ab apice rostri ad basin caudse 6 unc. C lin. ; cauda; 2 unc. 1 lin. 



Halcyon Senegaloides, Smith. — South African Quarterly Juurnal, second 

 series, vol. i. p. Mo ; 183i. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head and the back of the neck dusky 

 smoke-grey, tinted with dull verdigris-green ; the feathers of the top of the 

 head variegated with narrow, light, reddish brown bars. The interscapulars 

 verdigris-green, the colour changing in certain lights to light azure-bhie ; the 

 back and a few of the feathers at the tips of the shoulders bright cobalt-blue. 

 The shoulders, lesser wing-coverts, and secondary quill-coverts velvet-black; 

 the primary quill coverts greenish blue tipt with brownish red, the shafts and 

 a portion of each inner vane towards the quill the latter colour. The basal 

 half of the outer vane of each primary quill feather intermediate between ver- 

 digris-green and ultra-marine blue, the corresponding portions of inner vanes 

 white with a satin lustre, the last half of each feather deep liver-brown ; the 

 secondary and tertiary quill feathers exhibit the same colours, only the blue 

 occupies most if not all of the outer vanes, while the white exists only towards 

 the base of each inner vane, and the liver-brown towards the point. Tail 

 feathers greenish blue like the outer vanes of wing feathers, the shafts 

 brownish red. The chin, the throat, the belly, the vent, and the under tail 

 coverts reddish white, the breast and flanks greenish white finely freckled 

 with dusky-brown. The feathers between the eyes and the base of the bill 

 as well as the lower eyelids black, and between the nostril and the eye there 

 is a narrow whitish stripe, from the feathers in that situation being white to- 

 wards their base. Bill scarlet-red. Eyes dark brown. Legs, toes and claws 

 dull purplish red. 



Form, &c. — Figure robust. Head large ; bill strong and quadrangular, the 

 upper mandible considerably longer than the lower, pointed at the tip, and 

 channelled internally. Nostrils small, suboval, and extending parallel to the 

 feathers at the base of the bill and nearly in contact with them. The feathers 

 in front of eyes scanty, short, and wiry. Wings short and rounded, the 



