THE BROAD-BELTED KINGFISHER. 
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464. ALCEDO EURYZONA. 
THE BROAD-BELTED KINGFISHER. 
Alcedo euryzona, Temm. PI. Col. livr. 86; 81iarpe, Mon. Alced. p. '29, pi. 8; 
Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 95 ; Tweedd. Ihis, 1877, p. 297 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 49. 
Alcedo nigricans, Bl. J. A. 8. B. xvi. p. 1180 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 81 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bingham., S. F. ix. p. 156. 
Description. — Male. Forehead^ crown and nape dull black barred with 
greenish blue; back and rump silvery blue; upper tail-coverts a brighter 
and deeper blue ; tail black with a bluish tinge ; lesser wing-coverts and 
scapulars dull black tinged near the tips with dull blue ; median and greater 
wing-coverts dull black margined with bright blue ; quills dark brown^ edged 
partially with blue ; lores ferruginous ; cheeks and ear-coverts blacky the 
feathers broadly terminated with dull blue ; a broad streak on either side 
of the neck vvhite^ ending in pale orange ; chin and throat white ; breast dull 
blue, the white bases of the feathers appearing in places ; sides of the 
breast dusky black; sides of the body white streaked with brown; abdo- 
men, vent, under wing-coverts and under tail- coverts white (varying to 
buff according to Mr. Hume). 
The female has the chin and throat white, and the upper plumage and 
head like the male ; but the whole under plumage is a bright ferruginous. 
A young female differs in having a good deal of ferruginous on the 
cheeks and ear-coverts. 
Male : upper mandible black ; lower mandible very dark brown, almost 
black, paler at base; iris deep brown; legs and feet vermilion. Female: 
upper mandible black ; lower mandible pale red ; iris very dark brown ; 
legs and feet pale vermilion ; claws pale orange. (Davison.) 
The young bird has the lower mandible red and the tips of both man- 
dibles white. 
Length 8 inches, tail 1*6, wing 3'4, tarsus '5, bill from gape 2*2. The 
female is of the same size. 
1 have examined two males from the Indian archipelago in the British 
Museum, and find them to be identical with a Tenasserim male both in 
coloration and size. 
The Broad- belted Kingfisher occurs in Tenasserim from the extreme 
south to about the latitude of Moulmein ; and Capt. Bingham observed it 
in the Thoungyeen valley. My men obtained one specimen at Malewoon. 
It has been procured at Malacca, and in Sumatra, Java and Borneo. 
This Kingfisher, according to Mr. Davison, occurs in streams which flow 
through deep forests, is shy, feeds entirely on fish, and is usually seen in pairs. 
A. beryllina from Java is of the same type of plumage as the present 
species, but is very much smaller, the wing being 2*4 inches in length. 
