﻿HALCYON PILEATA. 



(BLACK-CAPPED KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo 

 Halcyon 

 Entomothera 

 Entomobia 

 Dacelo 



pileata 



atricapella 



Alcedo 



,, brama. 



„ puella. 

 Martin-pecheur de la Chine 

 Udang, Malay (Blyth) ; 



Burong-udang, Malays of Sumatra (Raffles). 



Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 41 (1783). 

 Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, I. p. 79 (c. 1844). 

 Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 15, t. cccci, fig. 3080-81 (1851). 

 Cab. Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 155 (1860). 

 Schl. Mus. Pays Bas. Alced. p. 27 (1863). 

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

 Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 453 (1788). 

 Less. Cent. Zool. pi. viii. (1830). 

 "Krelling," Reich. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 149. 

 Buff. PI. Enl. 673 ; 



H. rostro toto rubro: Cauda longiori : pileo nigro: dorso ultramarino : nucha et gula albidis : abdomine 

 flavescente-rufis. 



Hah. in regione indica. 



Head and cheeks, the upper portion of the back below the collar, shoulders, and 

 wing-coverts, black; back, scapularies, upper surface of the tail and the outer web of the 

 secundaries and primaries, except towards their end, rich ultramarine ; the basal half of 

 the inner web of the primaries white ; the terminal half of the wing- feathers and the 

 under surface of the tail, blackish ; throat, upper part of breast, and a collar behind 

 the neck, white, with tinge of tawny on the latter two; abdomen and under wing- coverts 

 fine rust-colour, deeper on the flanks; bill coral- red; eye dark brown; feet red. Total 

 length 11.5. Length of bill from front 2.2, from gape 2.6, wing 4.9, tail 3.3, tarsus .4, 

 middle toe .8, hind toe .4. 



Hab. Ceylon (Layard), India (Jerdon), Andaman Islands (Beavan), Burmah (Beavan), 

 Siam (Schomburgk), Cochin (Day), China (Swinhoe), Tenasserim (Briggs), Malay Pen- 

 sinsula (Cantor), Sumatra (Kreling)\ Borneo (Wallace), Phillipines (Mus. Lugd.). 



Additional references. — Halcyon pileata, Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 54 (1848) ; Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. 

 Mus. p. 5 (1852); Dacelo pileata, Schl. Vog. Ned. Ind. Alced. pp. 22, 54, pi. 9 (1864); Alcedo atricapilla, Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. I. p. 251 (1790), Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 70 (1811), Bon. and Vieill. Encl. Meth. I. p. 289 (1823); 

 Halcyon atricapilla, Pelz. Voy. Nov. Nog. p. 49 (1865); //. atricapillus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii, p. 99 (1825), 

 Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 47 (1849), Horsf. and Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. E. I. Co. I. p. 124 

 1854, Gould, Birds of Asia, pi.— (I860). 



