﻿CARCINEUTES PULCHELLUS. 



(BANDED KINGFISHER.) 



Dacelo pulchella . . Horsf. Linn. Trans. \iii. p. 175 (1822). 



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



Lacedo „ . . Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 42, t. ccccxxix. fig. 3168-9 (1851). 



Carcineutes pulchellus, . Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. ii. p. 163 (1860). 



Dacelo buccoides . . Temm. PI. Col. 586. 



C. pluinis dorsi nigris, fasciis celatis albis, et thalassino-cceruleo terminatis : cauda nigra, fasciis extus 

 cjeruleis intus albis transvittata : fronte, genis, regione parotica, colloque postico rufis. Fcem. toto diversa : supra 

 nigra, fasciis ochraceis vittata, dorsi, tectrieum alarum etcaudae fasciis latioribus : subtus alba : pectorc et hvpoehon- 

 driis nigro transradiolatis. 



Hah. in regione Indo-Malayana. 



Head, nape, back and wing coverts black, each feather banded with white and tipped 

 with shining blue ; tail black, banded with blue and white; primaries black, secondaries 

 spotted and tipped with white; forehead, cheeks and a collar below the nape deep chesnut; 

 throat white; upper part of the breast and flanks pale brownish red; centre of abdomen 

 and under wing-coverts lighter ; bill deep red ; eyes brown olive ; feet buffy ochre yellow. 



Female, above black broadly banded with ochre; under surface white, with the upper 

 part of the breast and flanks banded with black. Total length 9 inches. Length of bill 

 from front 1.4, from gape 1.8, wing 3.4, tail 2.7, tarsus .4, middle toe .5, hind toe .3. 



Hah. Mergui (Blyth), Burmah (Mason), Sumatra (Mus. Hein.), Java (Horsfield, Wallace). 

 Malacca ( Cantor, Wallace). 



Dr. Horsfield, the original describer, in his " Zoological Researches in Java," says: — 

 "This is an extremely rare and local bird, and I found it once only, in alow range of 

 hills about twenty miles south-east of Samarang, known in the central parts of the island 

 by the name of the hills of Prowoto. Here a single bird was obtained in the forest." 



Although numerous specimens have reached Europe from the island of Java since 



Additional References. — D. pulchella, Horsf. Zool. Res. in Java, pi. (1824) : Temm. PI. Col. 277 ; Birth, 

 Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Beng. p. 46(1849); Moore, P.Z.S. 1854, p. 268: Horsf. and Moore, Cat. Birds Mus. 

 E. I. Co. I. p. 122 (1854); Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 21(1868); id. Vog. Xed. Ind. Alced. pp. 15. 50, 

 pi. v. (1864); //. pulchella, Grav, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus., p. 52 (1848): Bonap. Cona. Gfon. At. 1. p. 154 ( 1850) 

 Cass. Cat. Hale Phil. Mus. p. 7 (1852); P<dz. Vov. Nov. Vog. \<. II (1865). 



