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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
An allied species is H. occipitalis from the Mcobar Islands. It diflPers in 
having a broad buff band surrounding the crown of the head from the 
forehead to the nape. 
There are many other members of this genus_, but none likely to occur 
in Burmah. 
Genus CAECINEUTES, Cah. et Hein. 
475. CAECINEUTES PULCHELLUS. 
THE BANDED KINGFISHER. 
Dacelo pulchella, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 175. Carcineutes pulchellus, 
Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 251, pi. 96 ; Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 70 ; Hume 8f Bav. 
S. F. vi. p. 79 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 86 ; Bijigham, S. F. viii. p. 193, ix. p. 154. 
Carcineutes amabilis, Hume, S. F. i. p. 474 ; Sharpe, S. F. ii. p. 484 ; Hume, 
S. F. iii. p. 51. 
Description. — Male. Forehead,, lores, cheeks and ear- coverts, produced 
backwards to meet on the nape and forming a broad collar, chestnut; 
crown and nape brilliant smalt-blue ; the blue is somewhat broken in 
places, owing to the white of the feathers showing through back, scapulars, 
tertiaries, median and greater wing-coverts black, barred with white and 
terminated with blue ; lesser wing-coverts black, tipped with blue ; rump 
black, tipped with blue, the white bars interrupted ; upper tail-coverts like 
the back j central tail-feathers black, barred with blue and with some white 
marks on the inner webs at the end of the blue bars ; the other rectrices 
barred with blue on the outer webs and with white on the inner; primaries 
black ; secondaries black, with white spots on both webs, which become 
bars on the tertiaries ; chin, throat and upper breast white ; lower breast 
tinged with buff ; sides of the body buff ; abdomen, vent and under tail- 
coverts white. 
The female has the whole upper plumage, tail, wing- coverts, scapulars, 
tertiaries and the sides of the head and neck pale chestnut barred with 
black ; primaries black ; secondaries black, with chestnut spots on both 
webs ; entire lower plumage white ; a few black broken bars on the sides 
o£ the breast ; in immature birds these bars are more marked. 
Bill bright red ; mouth red ; eyelids and orbital skin pale salmon-red ; 
iris yellowish white; legs greenish brown; claws horn -colour. 
Length 9*2 inches, tail 3*5, wing 3*5, tarsus '6, bill from gape 2. The 
female is quite as large. 
Some birds have no chestnut collar round the neck ; and the male which 
I procured on the Pegu hills, and which Mr. Hume named C. amabilis ^ 
