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ALCEDO BENGALEES IS. 



(LITTLE INDIAN KINGFISHER.) 



Aleedo bengalensis Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 450 (1788). 



Alcedo minor Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 7 (1863). 



Alcedo ispida minor Heugl. Orn. Nordost. Af'r. p. 178 (1869). 



Alcedo benyalensis var. sondaica .... Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 3 (185 L). 



Alcedo sondaica Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 3 (1851). 



Alcqlo japonica Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 10 (1854). 



Alcedo moluccensis Wall. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 484 (nec Bhjth). 



A. torque pectorali nulla : abdomine laete castaneo : tectricibus alarum conspicue cyaneo terminates : regione 

 parotica rufa : minor : rostro longo : supra, laete cyanea : capite cyaneo profuse fasciato. 



Hah. in parte orientali Africae septentrionalis. in Asia, centrali et orientali, in tota 

 regione Indica et aliquando in sub-regione Austro-Malayana. 



Male. Head crested, profusely band«d with broad bars of very brilliant cobalt ; 

 scapularies and wing coverts greenish-blue, washed along the edge with intense cobalt ; 

 entire back very rich cobalt ; quills brownish-black, the inner web very pale rufous at the 

 base, the outer web, especially of the secondaries, edged with greenish -blue ; tail indigo 

 above, black beneath ; a spot at the base of the bill, a longitudinal stripe from below the eye 

 extending backwards over the ear, and the under surface of the body rich orange- 

 rufous ; throat and a patch of feathers along the sides of the neck white tinged with 

 rufous ; cheeks and a patch of feathers on the sides of the breast rich cobalt ; bill black ; 

 feet orange. 



Female. Similar to the male, but has the colours less vivid, and the base of the lower 

 mandible orange. 



Additional references. — Alcedo benyalensis, Bon et Vieill. Encl. Meth. I, p. 291 (1823) ; Kittl. Kupf. Yog. 

 pi. 29 (1832) ; Sykes, P.Z.S. 1832, p. 84 ; Maclell. P.Z.S. 1839, p. 156 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. 1840, p. 231 ; 

 Vigne, P.Z.S. 1841, p. 6 ; Ewer, P.Z.S. 1842, p. 92 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. and B. of Nep. p. 57 (1846) ; id. Gen. 

 of B. I, p. 81 (1847) ; id. Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 68 (1848); Myth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 49 

 (1849) ; Temm. and Schl. Faun. Jap. Av. pi. 38 (1850) ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 158 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. 

 Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 1 (1852); Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 155: Moore, P.Z.S. 1854, p. 269; Horsf. and 

 Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E.I. Co. I, p. 129 (1854) ; Adams, P.Z.S. 1858, p. 474 ; Gould, P.Z.S. 1859, pp. 150. 

 151; Adams. P.Z.S. 1859, p. 169; Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 144 (1860); Mason, Burm. p. 671 

 (I860) ; Schrenk, Amurl. p. 265 (1860) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 49 et 1861, pp. 31, 328 ; Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 226 : 

 Jerd. B. of Ind. I. p. 231 (1862); Blakist. Ibis, 1862, p. 325 ; Swinh. Zool. 1863, p. 8747 et P.Z.S. 1863, pp. 

 269, 333, et Ibis, 1863, p. 260 ; Wall. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 484 ; Day, Land of Perm. p. 460 (1863) ; 8chomb. Ibis, 

 1864, p. 247 ; Martens, Journ. f. Orn. 1866, p. 18; Pelz. Voy. Nov. Viig. p. 50 (1865); Beav. I'.Z.S. 1865. p. 

 692 et Ibis, 1865, p. 409 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 348; Whitely, Ibis, 1*67, p. 196 ; Swinh. Ibis, 1867, p. 408; 

 Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 196 ; Beav. Ibis, 1869, p. 409. Alcedo minor, Schl. Vug. Ned. Ind. Alad. pp. 4, l", pi. 1 

 (1864;. Alcedo ispida, var benyalensis, Kadde, Reise Ost. Lib. II, p. 143 (1863). 



