﻿ALCEDO ASTATIC A. 



(MALAYAN KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo asiatica, Swains. Zool. Illustr. 1st ser. I, pi. 50 (1821). 



Alcedo meningting, .... Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 172 (1822). 

 Ceyx meningting, .... Cuv. Eegne. Anim. I, p. 444 (1829). 



Alcedo lengalen&is, .... Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 243 (1831, nec Gm.). 

 Alcedo Verreauxii, . . . . De la Berge, Eev. Zool. 1851, p. 305, pi. 9. 

 Meningting of the Javanese {Uorsfield). 

 Binti, of the Natives of Sumatra (Baffles). 



A. torque pectorali nulla : abdomine intense rufo : minor : rostro breviori : pileo bete cyaneo fasciato. 

 Hab. in regione Indo-Malayanil. 



Male. Head and cheeks dark blue, banded with bright cobalt ; a longitudinal patch of 

 feathers along the sides of the neck, white tinged with rufous ; back beautiful bright cobalt ; 

 scapulars black washed with blue ; w T ing-coverts black, washed and spotted with bright 

 blue ; quills black, the inner web very light rufous at the base, the outer web washed with 

 blue, more especially on the secondaries ; tail blueish-black ; throat whitish ; a spot in front 

 of the eye rufous edged with black ; under surface of the body with the under wing- and 

 tail-coverts bright rufous, extending up the neck in very old birds ; bill black ; feet red. 



Female. Similar to the male, but the colours not so bright, the cheeks and ear-coverts 

 rufous instead of blue, and the lower mandible orange. 



Young Male. Similar to the old female, but shewing a few blue feathers on the red cheeks. 



Hab. Maunbhoom (Beavan), Cochin China (mus. B. B. S.), Tenasserim (mus. I mi), 

 Andaman Islands (Tgtler), Penang {Cantor), Malacca (Wallace), Singapore {mus. Brit.), 

 Sumatra (Baffles), Java (Horsfield), Bangka (mus. Lugd.), Lombock ( Wallace), Celebes, 

 Macassar (Wallace), Gorontalo (von Bosenberg), Borneo (mus. B. B. S/tarpe), Labium (Motleg). 



Additional references. — Alcedo asiatica, Sharpo, Ibis, 18G9, p. 281 ; Gray, ITandl. of B. App. p. ,02 (hsO'.o. 

 Alcedo meninting,Temm. PI. Col. 239, fig. 2 (1823); Bnffl. Mem. p. 055 (1830;; Gray, (i.-n. of B. 1, p. M 

 (1846); Kaup, Fam. Alced. p. 16 (1848); Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 63 (1818); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. 

 Soc. Beng. p. 49 (1849); Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 158 (1850); Keith. Ilamlb. A leal. p. 4, t. <(c.\riv, fig. 

 3050-51 (1851); Cass. Cat. Hale. l'hil. Mus. p. 3 (1852 ; Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 10 (185-1); Horsf. \ 

 Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. I. p. 130 (1854); Moore, l'.Z.S. 1854, p. 269; Cab. ft Heine, Mus. linn. th. 

 II, p. 144 (1860) ; Mason, Burm. p. 671 (1861) ; Wall. 1VZ.S. 1863, p. 481 ; St hi. Mus. I'ays Has, A /fat. p. 7 

 (1863) et Vog. Ned Ind. A/ced. pp. 6, 44, pi. 3 (1864) ; Folz. Voy. Nov. Viig. p. 50 (1865; ; Bi-nv. Il-is, 1x67, 

 p. 319; Gray, Handl. of B. p. 95 (1869). Alcedo Verreauxii, Keith, llumlb. Alcal. p. 5. I. ooooiii, fig. 3173 

 (1851) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 348. 



