﻿Hab. Malacca (Blyth, mus. Calc), Sumatra (Baffles, mus. Ind.), Java (Muller, mus. 

 Lugch), Borneo (mus. Philad.), 



This is a very rare species in collections, and I am greatly indebted to Professor Schlegel 

 for lending me specimens from the Leiden Museum for figuring in the present work. I 

 know of only one example in this country, which is in the British Museum ; and I have 

 entirely failed to procure a single bird for my own collection. My friend Mr. W. T. Fraser, 

 of Soerabaya, has done his utmost to get me specimens ; but the success which has waited on 

 his kind endeavours as regards the other species of Javan Kingfishers has not attended him 

 in the present instance, for he writes to me that on only one occasion has he met with the 

 Broad-belted Kingfisher, and then he had not his gun at hand. He rushed off for the latter 

 at once, but unluckily on his return the bird had flown. 



The nearest ally to the present species is Alcedo grandis, but the resemblance is only in 

 form ; for neither in this nor in any other species of the genus Alcedo is there such a vast 

 difference in the young and adult birds as is exhibited in Alcedo euryzona. It would seem 

 to imply that the bird is ratner a recent species on the face of the globe, and that the species 

 from which it was originally evolved was a true Alcedo in style of coloration and form, 

 traces of the original ancestor being preserved in the young plumage of the bird of the pre- 

 sent day. 



I can give no details of the habits of the present species, but it doubtless resembles our 

 Common Kingfisher in this respect. The figures are taken from specimens lent to me from 

 Leiden by Professor Schlegel. The adult bird described and figured is Temminck's original 

 type, which was procured in Java by S. Muller ; the young bird was brought by Dr. Horner 

 from Sumatra. 



