﻿ALCYONE CYANOPECTUS. 



(BLUE-GIRT KINGFISHER.) 



Ceyx cyanopectus, Lafr. Kev. Zool. 1840, p. 33. 



„ „ Gray, Gen. of Birds, App. p. 5 (1848). 



Alcyone cyanopectus, .... Jard. Contr. to Orn. 1850, p. 82. 



Alcyone cyanipectus, .... Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 158 (1850). 



„ „,.... Keich. Handb. Alced. p. 7, t.cccxcvi, fig. 3060 (1851). 



„ „,.... Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 10 (1854). 



„ „,.... Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. lxiv. 



Alcyone cincta, Jard. Contr. to Orn. 1850, plate only. 



Alcedo cyanipectus, . Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 18 (1863). 



A. torque pectorali lata lazulina : mandibula nigricante, maxilla aurantia. 



Hah. in insulis Philippinis. 



Head deep bluish black, irregularly banded with bright blue, more thickly on the nape ; 

 the whole of the back rich shining cobalt; scapularies and wing-coverts black broadly 

 washed with dark blue, the latter also spotted with bright cobalt ; wing-feathers brownish 

 black, the secondaries narrowly edged with indigo ; tail black, washed with indigo ; cheeks 

 indigo, spotted with cobalt ; a spot in front of the eye, a patch of feathers at the side of 

 the neck, throat and upper part of the breast, whitish tinged with pale sienna ; a band 

 across the upper part of the breast and the flanks, deep indigo tinged with brighter blue 

 on the latter ; abdomen and under wing-coverts rufous ; bill brownish- black, the lower 

 mandible tinged with orange. Total length 5 inches, of bill from front 1.4, from gape 

 1.7, Aving 2.5, tail 0.7, tarsus 0.3, middle toe 0.3, hind toe 0.2. 



Hah. Philippine Islands [mus. T. C. Eyton). 



The present species was described by the late Baron de La Fresnaye as a Ceyx in 1840. 

 Ten years afterwards a specimen was received by Mr. Eyton from the Philippines, and was 

 sent to Sir William Jardine for description in the " Contributions to Ornithology." The 



