﻿HALCYON CYANOLEUCA. 



(ANGOLA KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo cyanoleuca, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XIX. p. 401 (1818). 



Halcyon cyanoleuca, Hartl. Contr. to Orn. 1849, p. 20. 



Cancrophaga cyanoleuca, .... Bonap, Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (18-54). 

 Martin-pecheur a ventre sable, . . . Temm. Cat. syst. p. 215 (1807). 



H. maxilla rubra, mandibula nigra : scapularibus laste thalassino lavatis : major : pileo laete thaiassino 

 stria nigra per oculum supra, regionem paroticam producta. 



Hah in Africa occidentali et australi. 



Above beautiful thalassine-blue, showing a sea-green tint in some lights, especially 

 bright on the rump and outer edge of the secondaries ; a white stripe from the base of the 

 nostrils extending backwards over the eye, white ; feathers at the base of the bill, 

 encircling the eye and extending backwards over the ear- coverts deep black ; wing- 

 coverts jet-black, outer wing-coverts thalassine-blue ; quills black, the inner web white at 

 the base ; tail thalassine-blue above, beneath black ; throat and under wing-coverts pure 

 white ; rest of the under -surface of the body greyish white, with small transverse cinereous 

 verniculations, and washed in some lights with a thalassine lustre; upper mandible 

 vermilion, lower mandible black ; feet black. Total length 9 inches, of bill from front 

 1.8, from gape 2.3, wing 4.4, tail 2.5, tarsus 0.4, middle toe 0.7, hind toe 0.35. 



Hab. Gambia River (mus. R. B. SJiarpe), Angola (Temminck), Benguela (Monteiro), 

 Ondonga, Ovampo Country (Andersson), Cape Colony (Layard), Monocusi River, N. Natal 

 (Ayres), Zambesi River (mus. Walden et R. B. Sharpe). 



I believe this species to be fully separable from H. senegalensis, the points of distinc- 



Additional references. — Alcedo cyanoleuca, Bon. et Vieill. Encl. Meth. I, p. 394 (1823). Halcyon cyanoleuca, 

 Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 2 ; id. Orn. Westaf. p. 31 (1857), Miiller, Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 8 ; Gurney, Ibis. 

 1868, p. 265, Halcyon senegalensis, Mont. P.Z.S. 1865, p. 94 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 265, Layard, Birds 

 of S. Afx. p. 62 (1867). 



