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 White-bellied Kingfisher. 



Halcyon leucogaster, Fkaser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 4. 



The Alcedo leucogaster I believe to be peculiar to the Island of Fernando Po, where it is by 

 no means uncommon. It frequents the solitary brooks, which everywhere intersect that island. 

 Its habits and manners, as far as opportunities offered of observing them, were precisely the same 

 as those of our British species, perching upon the over-hanging branches and stones, from whence 

 it darts upon the small fish, with which these streams abound. 



My specimens were procured in the neighbourhood of Clarence. 



This beautiful species bears a great similarity in appearance to the Halcyon cyanotis, Swains, 

 but may at once be distinguished from that bird by the centre of the abdomen being white. 



Crown of the head, alternately banded with blue and black ; from each nostril commences a 

 large patch of rufous, which envelopes the base of the lower mandible, the ears, and sides of the 

 head, forms a broad stripe over the eye, and extends along the sides of the neck and body, and 

 also over the under wing-coverts ; the back is ultramarine blue ; the upper wing-coverts are tipped, 

 and the wings and tail glossed with the same hue ; the throat, the centre of the chest, and 

 abdomen are white ; bill and feet, red. 



Total length, five and a half inches. 



