P1CARI.E. 

 ALCEDINID.E. 



Subfam. ALCEDININ.E. 



Bill long, compressed, with the culmen keeled and the gonys straight. Wings reaching, 

 when closed, beyond the middle of the tail ; the 1st quill longer than the 5th. Tail moderate 

 or short. Legs and feet small. Tarsus hardly longer than the inner toe ; outer toe nearly as 

 long as the middle, and united to it as far as the last joint; inner toe united to middle as far as 

 the first joint. 



Genus CEEYLE. 

 Bill typically long, very straight, the culmen scarcely bent towards the tip, flattened above, 

 with a well-pronounced groove adjacent to it ; gonys very long and straight ; gape angulated. 

 Nostrils linear and oblique. Wings moderate ; the 2nd and 3rd quills subequal and longest, and 

 the 4th considerably longer than the 1st. Tail moderately long, about equal to the bill from tip 

 to the gape, even at the tip. Tibia bare above the knee. Tarsus smooth, very short, much less 

 than the middle toe ; feet with a broad sole. Outer toe nearly as long as the middle, and joined 

 to it as far as the last joint ; inner toe much shorter, and joined to the middle as far as the 1st 

 joint ; hind toe very short. 



CEEYLE PiZTDIS. 



(THE PIED KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo nulls, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1S1 (1766); Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 84; Gould, B. of 

 Eur. pi. 62 (1837). 



Ceryle rudis, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 49 (1849) ; Kelaart, 

 Prodromus, Cat. p. 119 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 172; 

 Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. p. 131 (1854) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 232 

 (1862); Layard, B. of S. Africa, p. 67 (1867); Tristram, Ibis, 1866, p. 84; Sharpe, 

 Monog. Alced. pi. 19 (1868-71); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 424; Shelley, B. of 

 Egypt, p. 167 (1872) ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 109 (1873) ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 14, 

 et 1875, p. 282; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 52. 



Ispida rudis, Jerd. Madr. Journ. 1840, p. 232. 



Ceryle varia, Strickl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, vi. p. 418. 



Ispida bitorguata, Swains. Classif. B. p. 336 (1827). 



Ceryle leucomelanura, Eeichenbach, Handb. Alced. p. 21, pi. 309. fig. 3488 (1851). 



The Black-and-white Kingfisher, Edwards, pi. 9; Kelaart, Prodromus. Martin Pecheur noir et 

 blanc de Senegal, Buflbn, PI. Enl. 62. 



