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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
473. HALCYON CONCRETA. 
THE SUMATRAN KINGFISHER. 
Dacelo concreta, Teinm. PI. Col. 346. Halcyon concreta, Sharpe, Man. Alced. 
p. 219, pi. 83 ; Hume Sf Dav. 8. F. vi. p. 76 ; Htwie, S. F. viii. p. 86. Carida- 
grus concretus, Sahad. TJcc. Born. p. 102. 
Description. — Male. Forehead, crown and nape dull green ; the lores 
and a broad band through the eyes and ear-coverts_, completely encircling 
the head, black ; a broad moustachial band^ an inch and a half long, blue, 
tipped with black near the end ; a narrow supercilium from the nostrils to 
the end of the ear-coverts, the space between the black and blue bands of 
the head, a broad collar round the upper back, the sides o£ the neck and 
the whole lower plumage orange-buff, paling on the vent and under tail- 
coverts ; a patch on either side the breast blackish ; the back, immediately 
next the orange-buff, black ; wing-coverts, secondaries and tail blue ; quills 
dark brown edged with blue, the tertiaries very broadly so ; the first 
primary edged narrowly with orange-buff ; back, rump and shorter upper 
tail-coverts smalt-blue ; longer tail-coverts deeper blue. 
The female, according to Mr. Hume, resembles the male in general 
appearance, differing only in having the inters cap ulary region, coverts 
(except the primary greater ones), outer portions of secondaries, visible 
portions of tertiaries and scapulars all green, with the feathers of the 
coverts and scapulars marked with a buffy-white subterminal spot. 
The young differ very slightly from the adults. 
Legs, feet and claws chrome-yellow, sometimes with a dingy greenish 
tinge ; irides deep brown ; lower mandible, gape and a narrower or broader 
stripe on the upper mandible parallel to commissure from base to point 
bright yellow to orange chrome-yellow ; eyelids of the same colour ; rest 
of upper mandible dull black. {Davison.) 
Length 9 inches, tail 2*8, wing 4' 5, tarsus "7, bill from gape 2*7. The 
female appears to be larger. 
The Sumatran Kingfisher was procured by Mr. Davison in the extreme 
south of Tenasserim at Bankasoon and Malewoon ; and at this latter place 
my men obtained two specimens. 
It extends down the Malay peninsula, and occurs in Sumatra and 
Borneo. 
This bird, according to Mr. Davison, frequents dense forests and is not 
found near water. It feeds on lizards and woodlice. 
