﻿PELARG0PS1S FRASERI. 



(FRASER'S STORK-BILLED KINGFISHER.) 



Pelargopsis Fraseri 

 Ispida capitis bonce spei 

 Alcedo capensis 



Halcyon capensis . 

 Ramphalcyon jamna 

 Halcyon javana 



Halcyon javanica . 

 Alcedo leucocephala 



Halcyon leucocephalus 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 65. 

 Briss. Orn. IV, p. 488. 



Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 180 (1766, ex. Briss); Bonn, et Yieill.Enc. Moth. I. 

 p. 285 (1823). 



Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 101. Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I. p. 154 (1850); 

 Keich. Handb. Alced. p. 7, t. cccxcviii. b. fig. 3406 (1851, nec. Bodd.). 

 Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II. p. 156 (1860, nec Bodd.) ; (pt.) Pelz. 



Reise d. Nov. Yog. p. 49 (1865). 

 Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 11 (1852, nec. Shaw). 

 Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 174 (1822, nec Gm.) ; Raffl. Trans. 



Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 293 (1822). 

 Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 46 (1849); Bonap. Consp. Gen. 

 Av. I, p. 154 (1850); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E. I. Co. I. 

 p. 123 (1854, pt.) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 268. 

 Burong-Kaka of the natives of the Malay peninsula (Eyton). 

 Tengke-Buto of the Javans (Horsjield). 

 Bang-HaJca of the natives of Sumatra (Baffles). 



P. rostro rubro : scapularibus viridi-cyaneis : capite indistincte pileato, ochrascenti cinereo. 

 Hah. in sub-regione Indo- Malay ana. 



Head indistinctly capped, ashy brown, strongly washed with pale ochre ; space between 

 the bill and the eye, cheeks, and ear-coverts more decidedly ashy grey ; sides and back of 

 the neck ochre ; upper part of the back and scapularies indigo-blue, with more or less of a 

 greenish tinge; whole of the back rich cobalt ; wing-coverts blue, with a slight greenish 

 lustre ; quills pale brown, the inner web light ochre at the base, the outer web, especially 

 of the secondaries, indigo; tail indigo above, black beneath; under surface of the body 

 ochre, tinged with whitish on the throat ; bill dark sealing-wax red ; feet dark red. Total 

 length 14 inches, of bill from front 3-3, from gape 37, wing 6'2, tail 3'8, tarsus 0-45, 

 middle toe 1, hind toe - 45. 



Hah. Java (Horsfield, Wallace), Malacca (mus. B. B. S.), Penang (Cantor; mvs, 

 R. B. S.), Sumatra (Raffles, Wallace). 



In my paper on the genus Pelargofisis (I.e.), I proposed the name of Mr. W. T. Fras< r 

 for the present species instead of retaining the one which seems by right to belong to the 



