﻿ALCEDO BERYLLINA. 



(BERYL KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo beryllina, .... VieiU. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xix, p. 414 (1818). 



Alcedo biru, Karaf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 172 (1822). 



Alcedo ccerulescens, .... Bon. et Vieill. Encl. Meth. I, p 394 (1823). 

 Petit Mdrtin-pechew aigue marin , Temm. Cat. Syst. p. 213 (1807). 

 Meningting-watu and Burong-biru, of the Natives of Java {Horsfield). 



A. torque pectorali lazulina : minor : scapularibus beryllinis. 



Hah. in insulis dictis ' Java,' ' Lombock,' ' Timor.' 



Above beryl-blue, with transverse bars of brighter blue on the head ; back very rich 

 silvery cobalt ; wing- feathers blackish, the inner web white near the base, the outer webs 

 edged with bright blue ; throat, abdomen, a patch of feathers along the sides of the neck, 

 under wing- and tail-coverts pure white ; a band across the upper part of the breast extend- 

 ing a little way down the sides deep lazuli-blue ; bill black ; feet dark olive -brown. Total 

 length 4.8 inches, of bill from front 1.3, from gape 16, wing 2.4, tail 0.9, tarsus 0.2, 

 middle toe 0.45, hind toe 0.2. 



Hah. Java, (Horsfield), Lombock ( Wallace), Timor ( Vieillot). 



This beautiful little Kingfisher is a native of Java, whence it seems occasionally to 

 stray into the islands of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago, since Mr. Wallace obtained it in 

 Lombock, and, according to Vieillot, the original specimens in the Paris Museum came 



Additional References. — Alcedo beryllina, Hartl. Contr. to Orn. 1849, p. 20, Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 2 

 (1852). Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 11 (1863), id. Vog. Ned. Ind. Alced. pp. 8, 45, pi. 3 (1864). Alcedo birv, 

 Temm. PI. Col. 239 (1823), Horsf. Zool. Research, in Java, pi. — (1824), Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 81 (c. 1844). 

 Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xv, p. 12 (1846), Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 63 (1848), Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. 

 Soc. Beng. p. 50 (1849), Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I. p. 158 (1850), Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 4, t. cccxciv, fig. 3052-53 

 (1851), Puch, Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 389, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854), Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. 

 B.I. Co. I, p. 130 (1854), Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 423, Wall. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 484. 



