﻿HALCYON CHELICUTENSIS. 



(STRIPED KINGFISHER.) 



Libyan Kingfisher 

 Alcedo chelicuti . 

 Halcyon chelicuti 

 Pagurothera chelicuti 

 Dacelo chelicuti . 

 Halcyon chelicutensis 

 Dacelo tschelicutensis 

 Alcedo variegata . 

 Pagurothera variegata 

 Halcyon variegata 

 Alcedo striolata . 

 Halcyon striolata 

 Chelicutia striolata 

 Dacelo striolata . 

 Dacelo pygmaia . 

 Halcyon pygmcea 

 Chelicutia pygmcea 

 Halcyon damarensis 

 Sumbo of the natives of Capangonibe f Anchieta) 



Hah. in tota regione iEthiopica. 



Lath. Gen. Hist. IV, p. 32. 



Stanley, Salt's Trav. in Abyss. App. p. lvi (1814). 

 Hartl. Verz. Brem. Samml. p. 13 (1844). 

 Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 152 (1860). 

 Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 32 (1863). 

 Finsch & Hartl. Orn. Ost. Afr. p. 163 (1870). 

 Heugl. Orn. N. 0. Afr. p. 192 (1869). 

 Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. I, p. 397 (1823). 

 Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. II, p. 157 (1860). 

 Hartl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 105. 

 Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 12 (1823). 

 Cray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 54 (1848). 

 Eeich. Handb. Alced. I, p. 39, t. ccccxxiv, fig. 3155 (1851). 

 Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 32 (1663). 

 Cretzschm. in Eiipp. Zool. Atl. p. 42 (1826). 

 Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 154 (1850). 

 Eeich. Handb. Alced. p. 38, t. ccccxxiv, fig. 3154 (1851). 

 Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 153. 



Head brown, each feather longitudinally marked down the centre with a shaft-stripe 

 of darker brown ; ear-coverts and back of the neck black ; feathers in front of the eye 

 at the base of the bill, cheeks and a collar round the back of the neck dirty white, 

 marked with brown and slightly tinged with buff; upper portion of the back, scapulars and 

 wing- coverts brown, the greater coverts narrowly edged with white, primary coverts dull 



Additional references. — Alcedo chelicuti, Eiipp. N. Wirb. p. 68 (1835). Halcyon chelicuti, Eiipp. Syst 

 Uebers. p. 23 (1845) ; Ferr. et Gal. Voy. en Abyss. Ill, p. 248 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. of B. I, p. 79 (1846), et 

 Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 54 (1848); Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 9 (1852) ; Scl. Contr. to Orn. 1852, p. 124 • 

 Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. I, p. 128 (1854); Miill. Joiirn. f. Orn. 1855, p. 7; Heugl. Syst! 

 Uebers. p. 18 (1856), et Ibis, 1859, p. 329. Halcyon chelicutensis, Bharpo, Ibis, 1869. p. 283; id. P. Z. S. 1869, 

 p. 569. Halcyon striolata, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 154 (1850); Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 1, et Orn. "NVestafr. 

 p. 31 (1857), et J. f. O. 1861, p. 104; Heugl. Peterm. Mitth. 1862, p. 21 ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 325; Layard, 

 B. of S. Afr. p. 61 (1867); Bocago, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1867, p. 134; 1868, p. 40, 331; 1870, p. 339. Chelicutia 

 striolata, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). Halcyon pygmcia, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 332; Hartm. J. f. 0. 

 1866, p. 200; Ant. Cat. Ucc. p. 28 (1865). 



