﻿ISPIDINA PICTA. 



(ROSE-CHEEKED KINGFISHER.) 



Todus pictus, .... Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 49 (1783). 



Alcedo picta, .... Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, I, p. 81, pi. 28 (c, 1844). 



Ispidina pieta, . . . Kaup, Fam. Alced. p. 12 (1848). 



Todus cceruleus, . . . Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p, 444 (1788). 



Alcedo ccerulea, . . . Kupp. Neue Wirb. Vog. p. 70 (1835). 



Ispidina ccerulea, . . . Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). 



Alcedo pusilla, . . . Shaw and Nodd. Nat Misc. v. pi. 159 (1793). 



Alcedo ultramarina, . . Baud. Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. II, p. 443, pi. lxii, fig. 2 (1833). 



Alcedo nutans, . . . Vieill. Nouv. Bict. d'Hist. Nat. xix, p. 412 (1818). 



Halcyon cyanotis, . . . Swains. Birds of W. Afr. II. p. 103 (1837). 



Alcedo cyanotis, . . . Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 4. 



Ispidina cyanotis, . . . Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 105. 



Alcedo purpurea, . . . Bes Murs, Voy. en Abyss. Zool. p. 82 (1848). 



Todier de Juida, . . . Buff. PL Enl. 783. 



Opere, ..... of the Natives of Ibadan (Hinderer). 



I. major : dorso laete ultramarino : pileo toto. nigro, ultramarino fasciato : abdomine aurantio : macula ad 

 latera colli coerulea nulla. 



Hah. in Abyssinia et in Africa occidentali. 



Crown of the head black, banded with bright ultramarine ; back and scapularies very 



Additional references. — Alcedo picta, Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 65 (1848), Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. 

 p. 16 (1863). Ispidina picta, Keich. Handb. Alced. p. 6, t. cccxcvii, fig. 3061-62 (1851), Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. 

 Mus. p. 12 (1852), Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1855, p. 274, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 153, Cab. and Heine, Mus. 

 Hein. th. II, p. 145 (1860). Alcedo casrulea, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 158 (1850), Hengl. Sitz. Akad. Wien. 

 1856, p. 270, Antin. Cat. Coll. Ucc. p. 29 (1864), Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1866, p. 201. Alcedo ultramarina, Shaw 

 and Nodd. Nat. Misc. xxi, pi. 901 (1809). Alcedo nutans, Bon. et Yeill. Encl. Meth. I, p. 396 (1823). Halcyon 

 cyanotis, Jard. Contr. to Orn. 1849, p. 6, Mull. Journ. f. Orn. 18*55, p. 8. Alcedo cyanotis, Hartl. Orn. West Air. p. 

 35 (1857), Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1867, p. 134. Ispidina cyanotis, Brebm, Eeise naeh Habesch pp. 16, 210 

 (1863). Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 333. 



