﻿HALCYON SENEGALENSIS. 



(SENEGAL KINGFISHER.) 



Alcedo senegalensis . 

 Halcyon senegalensis 

 Bacelo senegalensis . 

 Cancrophaga senegalensis, 

 Halcyon cancrophaga, 

 Martin-pecheur a tete grise de Senegal, 



Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 180 (1766). 



Swains. Zool. Illustr. 1st ser. I, pi. 27 (1821). 



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



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



Heugl. Syst. Ubers. p. 18 (1856, nec. Lath.) 



Buff. PL Enl. 594. 



H. maxilla rubra, mandibula nigra : scapularibus hete thalassimo lavatis : minor : pileo obscure cinereo : stria 

 nigra a basi maxillge oculum circumdante, haud postice producta. 



Hah. in Africa occidentali et in Abyssinia. 



Head and back of the neck ashy -grey ; back, scapularies and upper surface of the tail 

 bright cobalt, especially on the rump ; the whole of the upper wing-coverts deep black ; 

 primary coverts cobalt ; quills black, white at the base, the outer web, especially of the 

 secondaries, broadly edged with bright cobalt ; tail cobalt above, black beneath, the inner web 

 black along the edge, as also the shaft, the whole tail entirely black underneath ; lores white, 

 produced backwards over the eye forming a very distinct eyebrow ; cheeks, sides of the neck 

 and upper part of the breast ashy-grey with a slight blue lustre and minutely vermiculated ; 

 throat and abdomen white, flanks grey ; upper mandible deep vermilion, lower mandible 

 jet black; feet black; eyes black. Total length 8.5 inches, of bill from front 1.7, from 

 gape 2.1, wing 4.0, tail 3.0, tarsus 0.4, middle toe 0.7, hind toe 0.3. 



Hah. Senegambia (mus Lugd.), R. Gambia (mus. Brem.) i Sierra Leone (Boivdich), 

 River Niger (Thomson), Bonny River (Jardine), Cameroons (mus. R. B. Sharpe), Gaboon 

 ( Verreaux), Camma River (Du Chaillu), Angola (Monteiro), Benguela (Anchiata, Sala), 

 White andBlueNiles ( Heuglin), Bogos Country (Jesse, Blanford), Gazelle River (Antinori), 

 Meninga (Speke). 



Additional references. — Alcedo senegalensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 455 (1788); Vieill. End. Meth. I, p. 28.'} 

 (1823) : Halcyon senegalensis, Swains. Birds of W. Af'r. II, p. 97 (1837); Gray, Gen. of Birds, I, p. 79 1846) ; 

 Jard. Ann. Nat. Hist. XVII, p. 86 (1846) ; Ferr. Voy. en Abyss. Zool. Ill, p. 248 (1847) ; Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 53 (1848) ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 155 (1850) ; Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 266 ; Iteich. 

 Handb. Alced. p. II. t. cccc. fig. 3077 (1851) ; Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 8 (1852), Ilartl. Journ. f. Orn. 

 1854, p. 2 ; Mull. Journ. f. Orn. 1855, p. 7 ; Cass. Proc. Phil. Acad. 1856. p. 320 ; Hartl. Orn. Westnfr. p. 31 

 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. Phil. Acad. 1859, p. 33 ; Heine, Journ. f. Orn. 1860, p. 187 ; Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. 

 II, p,472 (1860); DuChaillu, Eq. Afr. p. 472 (1861); Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 104 ; id. P.Z.S. 1863, p. 105 ; 

 Sclater, P.Z.S. 1864, p. HI ; Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 332 ; Antin. Cat. Ucc. p. 28 (1804) ; Hartm. Journ. f. 

 Orn. 1866, p. 201 ; Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1867, p. 134 ; Gray, Handb. of B. p. 90(1869). 



