﻿CORYTHORNIS CCERULEOCEPHALA. 



(BLUE-CRESTED KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo cceruleocephala, Gra. Syst. Nat. I, p. 449 (1788). 



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



Alcedo cyaneocephala, Shaw, Gen. Zool. VIII, p. 100 (1812). 



Alcedo cyanocephala, Hartl. and Finsch, Orn. Ostal'r. p. 163 (1869). 



Corythornis cyanocephala, Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II. p. 145 (1860). 



Corythornis nais Kaup, Fam, Alced. p. 12 (1848). 



Alcedo nais, Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 64 (1848). 



Petit Martin-pecheur de Senegal . . . Buff. PL Enl. 356. 



C. rostro corallino : crista brevion, laetissime eyanea. 



Hah. in Africa occidentali, in Abyssinia et in Africa eur-australi. 



Head brilliant blue, with a long crest, each feather of which is blue with a black slum 

 and crossed by two black bands near the tip ; sides of the head and rest of the upper surface 

 of the body ultramarine ; wing-coverts black spotted with ultramarine ; quills blackish, the 

 inner webs pale rufous at the base, the secondaries edged with ultramarine; tail blacki>L 

 with a tinge of ultramarine above ; throat and a patch of feathers along the sides of the 

 neck, white ; lores, cheeks, and the rest of the under-surface of the body rich rufous, paler 

 in very old birds ; bill and feet coral red ; eyes dark brown. Total length 5 inches, of bill 

 from front 1.3, from gape 1.6, wing 2.2, tail 0.9, tarsus 0.3, middle toe 0.45, hind toe 0.2. 



Hah. North Africa (mus. Brit.) Fazoglo (mus. Philad.), Az-Johannis, Tigre (von 

 Heuglin), Senegal (Buffon), Gold Coast (mus. Lugd.), River Camma (Du Chaillu), Loanda 

 (mus. B. B. Sharpe), St. Thomas (Weiss, mus. Brem.) Ilha do Principe (Dohrn, Keulemans), 

 Mozambique (mus. Hein.). 



Additional references. — Alcedo cceruleocephala, Lath. Hist, of Birds, IV, p. 41 (1822), Bon et VieilL Euc. 

 Meth. I, p. 290 (1823), Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 243 (1831), Gray, Gen. of Birds, I, p. 81 (c.1844), id.. Cat. Fi*s. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 64 (1848), Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 159(1850), Hartl. Beitr. Orn. Westafr. pp. 1, 18 (1852), 

 Brehm. Journ. f. Orn. 1853, p. 454, Hartl, Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 4, Mull. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 8, Sold. Mus. 

 Pays Bas. Alced. p. 11 (1863), Keul. Nederl. Tidschr. Ill, p. 377 (1866). Corythornis cairuhocephata, Blvth. 

 Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 50 (1849 ), Keich. Handb. Alced. p. 18, t. cccxcvii, fig. 3063, t. ccceiii b. fig. 3387, 

 (1851), Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 4 (1852;, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 10 (1854), Cass. Proc. Pliilad. Acad. 

 1859, p. 34, Heine, Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 187, Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 105, Du Chaillu, Equat. Air. p, 172, 

 (1861), Heugl, Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 333, Dohrn, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 825, Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. I. p. 134 

 (1867). Corythornis nais, Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 18 (1851), Haiti. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 4, id. Journ. I. Orn. 

 1861, p. 105. Alcedo nais, Gray, Gen. of Birds, App. p. 5 (1848), Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 37 (1857). Aletdc 

 cyanocephala, Heugl. Orn. Nord-Ost. Afr. p. 181 (1869). 



