﻿HALCYON OYANOYENTBIS. 



(MANY-COLOURED KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo cyanoventris 

 Halcyon cyanoventris . 

 Entomobia cyaniventris 

 Alcedo melanoptera 

 Halcyon melanopterus . 

 Entomothera melanoptera 

 Dacelo melanoptera 

 " Alcedo omnicolor, Reinw." 

 Dacelo omyiicolor . 

 Halcyon omnicolor 

 Halcyon multicolor 

 TengTce-ivrang of the Javanese {Horsjield). 



VieUl, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, XIX, p. 412 (1818). 



Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 6 (1852). 



Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. II, p. 154 (1860). 



Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 174 (1822). 



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



Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 14, t. cccciv, fig. 3087 (1851). 



Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 27 (1863;. 



Temm. PI. Col. 135 (1823). 



Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 247 (1831). 



Swains. Classif. of Birds, II, p. 335 (1837). 



Kaup, Fam. Eisv. p. 8 (1848). 



II. rostro toto la?te rubro : pileo nigro : dorso postico ultramarino : nucha gulaque rufia : abdomine cyaneo. 

 Hah. in insula "Java" dicta. 



Head and nape jet black, washed with ultramarine on the latter ; back and scapularies 

 beautiful rich cobalt, deepening in intensity on the rump and having a green lustre in cer- 

 tain lights ; the whole of the wing-coverts jet black, except those bordering the carpal bend 

 which are washed with blue; primary- coverts rich greenish cobalt ; quills blackish, the 

 inner web for the most part pure white, the outer web, especially of the secondaries washed 

 with greenish cobalt; tail cobalt above, black beneath; chin whitish ; cheeks black, tinged 

 here and there with rufous ; throat, upper part of the breast, and a collar round the neck, 

 deep rufous, the former spotted here and there with ultramarine ; entire under surface of 

 the body very rich ultramarine ; under wing coverts black ; bill and feet dark red ; eye dark 

 brown. Total length 10 inches, of bill from front 2.4, from gape 2.7, wing 4.7, tail 3.0, 

 tarsus 0.45, middle toe 0.8, hind toe 0.4. 



Hah. Java (Horxjield, Wallace). 



Additional references. — Alcedo cyanoventris, Bon. et Vieill. Enc. Meth. I, p. 396 (1823). Halcyon 

 cyaniventris, Gray, Handl. of B. p. 91 (1869); Halcyon melanoptera, Gray, Gen. of Birds. I, p. 79 (1816); id. 

 Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 54 (1848) ; Horsf. and Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E. I. Co. I, p. 127 (1854); Dacelo mela- 

 noptera Schl. Vog. Ned. Ind., Alced. pp. 22, 55, pi. 9 (1864) : Halcyon omnicolor, llartl. Verz. Mus. Brem. p. 13 

 (1844) ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 155 (1850), Gould ; Birds of Asia, pt. xii (1863). 



