﻿HALCYON COROMANDA. 



(RUDDY KINGFISHER.) 



Le martin pichew violet des hides 

 Aleedo coromandet . 



Halcyon coromandus 

 Dacelo coromanda . 

 Halcyon coromanda 



Callialcyon coromanda . 

 Callalcijon coromanda 

 Halcyon coromandeliana 



Dacelo coromandeliana . 



Halcyon coromandelianus 

 Halcyon coromandelicus 

 Halcyon coromander 

 Halcyon coromanda minor 

 Alcyon calipyga 

 Halcyon lilacina 



Callalcyon lilacina 

 Halcyon Schlegeli . 

 Halcyon coromanda major 

 Dacelo coromandeliana major 

 Halcyon rvfa 



Sonn. Toy. Tnd. II, p. 212, pi. 118. 



Lath. Ind. Om. I, p. 252 (1790, ex. Sonn.); Horsf. Trans. Linn. 



Soc. XIII, p. 174 (1822) ; Hadf. Zool. 1857, p. 5795. 

 Steph. Gen. Zool. XIII, p. 100 (1826). 

 Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 246 (1831). 



Gray, Cat. iMamm. & B. of Nep. p. 56 (1846); Cass. Cat. Halo. 

 Phil. Mm. p. 55 (1852) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. & B. of Nep. 

 p. 24 (1863). 



Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 15, t. ceccv, fig. 3092 (1851). 

 Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). 



Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 55 (1848) ; Hor.sf. & Moore, Cat. 



B. Mus. E. I. Co. I, p. 126 (1854) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 



259 ; id. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 333 ; id. Zool. 1863, p. 8747 ; 



Beav. Ibis, 1867, p. 319. 

 (pt.) Sehl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 25 (1863); id. Vog. Ned. 



Ind. Alced. pp. 24, 56, pi. 8 (1864). 

 Bulger, Ibis, 1869, p. 155. 

 Vig. App. Mem. Raffl. p. 654 (1830). 

 Blyth, Cat. B Mus. As. Soe. Beng. p. 47 (1849), 

 Tenvm. & Schl. Faun. Jap. Aves. p. 76 (1850). 

 Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1831). 

 Swains. Classif. of B. II, p. 335 (1857); Bonap. Consp. Gen. 

 At. I, p. 156 (1850) ; Motl. and Dillw. Nat, Hist, of Lab. 

 p. 13 (1855) ; Si later, P.Z.S. 1863, p. 213. 

 Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854) 

 Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av, I. p. 156 (1853). 

 Tenim. and Sehl. Faun. Jap. Av. p. 75 (1850). 

 Sehl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 25 (1863). 

 Wall. P.Z.S. 1862, p. 338. 



H. rostro toto rubro : pulclire lilacina : dorso postico Lxto cyaneo. 



Hah. in regione Indo-Malayana, in insula " Celebes" dicta, et in insulis Japonicis. 



General colour rufous, glossed everywhere with brilliant lilac; lower part of the back 

 and rump white washed with cobalt, and somewhat tinged with lilac; chin white; rest of 

 the under surface of the body pale rufous, washed with lilac on the breast, inclining to but! 

 on the belly. 



