﻿CORYTHORNIS CRISTATA. 



(MALACHITE CRESTED KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo cristata, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 178 (1766). 



Corythornis cristata, . . . . Kaup. Fam. Alced. p. 13 (1848). 



Alcedo cyanostigma Itiipp. Neue Wirb. pi. 24 (1835). 



Corythornis cyanostigma . . . Kaup. Fam. Alced. p. 13 (1848). 



Alcedo cyanostigmata, .... Des Murs, Voy. en Abyss. Zool. p. 81 (c. 1848). 



Petit Martin-pecheur de VIsle de Lucon . Buff PI. Enl. 756. 



C. rostro laste corallino : crista longissima malachitacea. 



Hab. in tota regione iEthiopica. 



Adult Male. (South Africa). Head with a malachite-green crest, each feather being 

 greenish-blue with a black shaft, and crossed by two black bands, the tip of the feather being 

 black preceded by a band of blue ; the feathers at the sides of the crest elongated and 

 broader; sides of the head and entire upper surface of the body, rich ultramarine ; wing- 

 coverts blackish washed with blue; quills brownish black, the secondaries edged with faint 

 ultramarine ; tail ultramarine above, black beneath ; chin and a longitudinal patch of fea- 

 thers along the sides of the neck, white; cheeks, ear-coverts, and rest of the under- surface 

 of the body, rich rufous ; bill and feet coral-red. 



Young female. Head crested, dusky-greenish, with very broad black shafts and bands, 

 the feathers on the nape with a slight silvery lustre ; back and scapularies light brown with 

 light cobalt bars ; back ultramarine washed with cobalt ; tail ultramarine above, brown 

 beneath ; quills light brown, the inner web light rufous from the base, the outer web edged 

 with light ultramarine ; lores light rufous ; cheeks rufous with little black markings ; 



Additional references.— Alcedo cristata, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 447 (1788), Shaw, Gen. Zool. VIIT, p. 98, pi. 12 

 (1812), Lath, Gen. Hist, of Birds, IV, p. 45 (1822), Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 12 (1823), Bon. et VieilL End. Moth. 

 I, p. 295 (1823), Guerin Menev. Iconogr. pi. 28 (1819), Kittl. Kupf. Yog. pi. 29 (1833), Gray, Gen. of Birds. 1. 

 p. 81 (c. 1844), id. Cat. Fiss.Brit. Mus. p. 64 (1848), Des Murs, Voy. en Abyss. Zool. p. 82(c. 1848), Bonap. Consp. 

 Gen. Av. I, p. 159 (1850), Hartl. Beitr. Orn. Westafr. p. 18 (1852), id. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 5, Verr. Rev. et Mag. 

 de Zool. 1855, p. 353, Mull. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 8, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 36 (1857), Hengl. Journ. f. Orn. 

 1862, p. 289, Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 11 (1863), Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 325, Layard, Birds of S. Afr. p. 65 

 (1867), Hartl, and Finsch, Orn. Ostafr. p. 167 (1869). Corythornis cristata, Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 18, t. 

 ccciii, fig. 3176-77 (1851) Cass. Cat. Halo. Phil. Mus. p. 4 (1852), Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis, p. 10 (1854), Gurney, 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 245, Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein, th. II, p. 146 (1860), Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 105. Hcu-l. 

 Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 333, Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. I, p. 134, (1868), Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, pp. 2W, 2-3. 

 Alcedo cyanostigma, Ferr. et. Gal. Voy. en Abyss. Zool. Ill, p. 248 (1847), Gray, Gen. of Birds, I, y. Kl 

 (c. 1344, id. Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus p. 64 (1848), Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 164 (1850), Ileugl. Sitz. Akad. A\ ten, 

 1856, p. 270, Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 11 (1863), Antin. Cat. Descr. Coll. Ucc p. 29 (lxi-4), Hartm. Journ. 

 f Orn. 1864, p. 226, id. Journ. f. Orn. 1865, p. 203. Corythornis cyanostigma, Beich. Handb. Aktd. p. 19, 

 t. cccxcv, fig. 3057-58 (1851), Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 4 (1852), Mull. Journ. fc Orn. 1855, p. 8. 



