﻿HALCYON LINDSAY! 



(LINDSAY'S KINGFISHER.) 



Dacelo Lindsayi . . . Vig. P.Z.S. 1831, p. 97; Eyd. & Souley. Voy. Bonite, p. 100, pi. 7 



(1841); ScH. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 23 (1863). 

 Halcyon Lindsayi . . . Gray, Gen. of B. I, p. 79, pi. 27 (1846) ; id. Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 



52 (1848) ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I. p. 154 (1850) ; Cass. 



Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 5 (1852) ; Gray, Handl. of B. I, p. 93 



(1869). 



Paralcyon Lindsayi . . . Keich. Handb. Alced. p. 36, t. cecexxi, figs. 3143-44(1851) ; Bynap. 



Consp. Yol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). 

 Astacophilus Lindsayi . . Cab . & Heine, Mus. Hein. tli. II, p. 162 (1860). 

 Alcedo Lindsayi . . . Martens, Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 18 ; id. Preuss. Exp. Ost. As. p. 



189 (1865). 



Dacelo Lessoni . . . Vig. P.Z.S. 1831, p. 97. 

 Actenoides Lessoni . . . Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 64. 

 Salsac of tbe Natives of Luzon (Eydoux and Soulcyet). 



H. pileo laete viridi, cinctu et striga mysticali lcete cyanea : collo po6tico cinnamonieo : uropygio Irate 

 cyaneo : subtus squamata, plumis albis viridi niarginatis. 



Hob. in insulis Philippinis. 



Adult. Head olive-green, washed with clearer green, especially over the eye; forehead 

 and lores with a stripe extending backwards over the eye, tinged with buff ; sides and back 

 of the head beautiful verditer, a moustachial stripe also of the same colour ; ear-coverts and 

 a narrow line of feathers running round the back of the head, black ; a line extending from 

 below the eye and encircling the neck so as to form a collar, as well as the entire throat, 

 rich cinnamon ; upper part of the back, scapulars and wing-coverts dull green, each feather 

 spotted at the tip with ochre ; lower part of the back and upper tail-coverts bright green, 

 each feather mesially streaked with ochre ; quills browny buff at the base of the inner web 

 externally edged with buffy olive especially on the secondaries; tail olive brown, tipped 

 with ochre, the external feather very short and banded with ochre ; under surface white, 

 breast and flanks broadly edged with greenish-brown, giving a scaly appearance ; bill black, 

 the lower mandible and a line on the upper mandible yellowish ; feet olive-brown. Total 

 length 9*6 inches, of bill from front T8, from gape 2*3, wing 4*3, tail 3 6, tarsus 0*6. 



Young. Head dull olive-green, with a circlet of verdigris encircling the head from above 

 the eye ; a line of feathers from the base of the bill forming an eyebrow, and another 



