﻿CARCINEUTES 



MELANOPS. 



(BLACK-CHEEKED KINGFISHER.) 



Dacelo melanops, . . . . Tcmm. Ms. Mus. Lugd. 



„ „ ... Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 21 (1863). 



„ „ Vog. Ned. Ind. Alced. pp. 16,51, pi. 5 (1864). 



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



„ ... Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 7 (1852). 



Lacedo melanops, . . . Keich. Handb. Alced. p. 42 (1851). 



Carcineutes melanops . . . Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 163, note (1860). 



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

 eaeruleis intus albis transvittata : t'ronte, genis, regione parotiea, colloque postico nigerrimis. Fern, adhuc ignota. 



Hab. in insula, "Borneo" dicta. 



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 black ; 

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

 and under wing- coverts lighter ; bill deep red ; feet buffy ochre yellow. Total length 

 7.5 inches, of bill from front 1.2, from gape 1.6, wing 3.2, tail 2.4, tarsus 0.07, middle toe 

 0.5, hind toe 0.3. 



Hab. Borneo (Mus. Lugd). 



This rare species is apparently almost unrepresented in collections in this country, 

 the only specimen which I have as yet met with being a young male in my own collection, 

 from Borneo. It seems to be entirely confined to the latter island, and is very similar to 

 the Malaccan C. pulchellw, but differs from it in having the forehead, cheeks and nuchal 

 collar black instead of rufous. The female is still unknown, but it will doubtless 

 be like that of its Malaccan representative. 



The measurements are taken from the specimen in my own collection, while the 

 large figure in the plate is drawn from the adult bird in the Leiden Museum (No. 1 of 

 Schlegel's Cat.), the small figure representing the young bird. The blue on the back of 

 the latter is paler than in the adult, and the beak is brownish with a yellowish streak on the 

 under mandible. 



