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CEEYLE KITDIS. 



(PIED KINGFISHER.) 



Black-and -White Kingfisher, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, p. 9 (1751). 



Ispida ex alio et nigro varia, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 521 (1760). 



Alcedo rudis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 181 (1766). 



Le Martin-pScheur pie, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 185 (1780).' 



Ceryle rudis (L.), Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316. 



Ispida bicincta, Swains. B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 95 (1837). , 



Ispida bitorquata, Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 336 (1837). 



Ispida rudis (L.), Jerdon, Madras Journ. 1840, p. 232. 



Ceryle varia, Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 418 (1840). 



Ceryle bicincta (Sw.), Reichenb. Handb. d. spec. Orn. p. 20 (1851). 



Ceryle leucomelanura, Reichenb. torn. cit. p. 21 (1851). 



Ceryle leucomelas, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 51 (1855). 



Alcedo bicincta (Sw.), Chapm. Trav. in S. Afr. ii. App. p. 409 (1868). 



Figurce notabiles. 



Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, pi. 9; DAubenton, PL Enl. 62 & 716; Werner, Atlas, Alcions. 

 Suppl. pi. 1 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 15. fig. 11 ; Reichenbach, op. cit. pi. 408. figs. 3097, 

 3098, & pi. 409. fig. 3488 ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced. pi. 19. 



6 ad. supra niger albo variegato, pileo cristato, stria superciliari fere ad nucham ducta alba : subtiis albus, 

 pectore nigro bicincto : remigibus nigris, ad basin albis, secundariis in pogonio interno fere omnino 

 albis et in pogonio externo versus apicem nigris, albo apicatis : rectricibus albis fascia lata anteapicali 

 nigra : rostro nigricanti-corneo : pedibus nigricantibus : iride fusca. 



2 ad. man similis sed vix minor, pectore unifasciato. 



Juv. corpore supra saturatius nigro, fascia pectorali cana nigricante marginata, guise plumis indistincte nigro- 

 fumoso apicatis. 



Adult Male (Gennesaret, 23rd May). Upper parts black, marked and varied with white; feathers on the 

 crown elongated, forming a crest ; a broad white line passes over the eye to the hind neck ; quills black 

 on the terminal and white on the basal portion, the white extending further on the inner than the outer 

 web, the secondaries having the inner web nearly entirely white and the outer one black on the terminal 

 half, and slightly tipped with white ; tail white, spotted with black on the basal two thirds, black on 

 the remaining third, and finally tipped with white; underparts white, the breast crossed by one broad x 

 and one narrow band; bill and legs black; iris brown. Total length about 11*5 inches, culmen 2 - 3, 

 gape 2 - 8, wing 5 - 55, tail 3'6, tarsus 0"45. 



Adult Female (Syria) . Resembles the male, but has the breast crossed by one, not two bands. 



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