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The Bh-d-i of Onmbin. 
mouth and highur u)) wliurc the water is fresh and the banks covered with the 
ordinary waterside vegetation, while they are also to be met with at nearly 
every pool and swamp. In habits they resemble other Kingfishers, sitting 
for hours motionless on a branch on the look-out for fish and diving into the 
water for their capture. The fourth species {chelicutensix) by no means 
confined to the neighbourhood of water, but haunts the open bush quite 
away from the river as well. The Mandingo name is Keer-kairr-long, obvi- 
ously derived from their cry, which is a long scolding rattle, .something like 
" wirra-wirra-wirra " very rapidly repeated. Among the English they are 
commonly known as " ^Mangrove Kingfishers.'" 
Halei/on miie,,aJpims. SENEGAL KINGFISHER. 
Ratiijc. West Africa, Senegambia to Congo ; North-east Africa. 
(ILL.) 
Thi.s, I think, is the commonest of the Gambian members of the 
Its head and neck are grey, the rest of the upper parts, including tail, blue ; 
throat white ; chest, belly, and under tail-coverts silvery grey ; under sur- 
face of tail black. Bill : upper mandible, red ; lower, black ; feet black ; 
iris grey. Length 8i inches. 
H. se.micaeruleus. 
Rantje. West Africa, Senegambia to Angola ; North-east and East 
Africa. (H.L.) 
About the same size as the preceding, l)ut differing in having rufous 
under parts and a wholly red bill. 
H. forqmifxx. BLUE-COLLARED KINGFISHER. 
Range. Senegambia. ( H.L.) 
A larger bird. ID to 11 inches in length, blue above with black mantle 
and wing-coverts ; throat white : chest and sides pale blue ; belly white ; 
beak red shaded with black towards the base ; legs yellowish brown. 
H. fort is. 
Range. Senegambia. ( H.L.) 
This bird I do not know. 
H. chelicutensin. STRIPED KINGFISHER. 
Range. Tropical Africa. (H.L.) 
This is a smaller and not quite so brightly coloured a bird as the other 
members of the genus, from all of which too it is distinguished by the dark 
streaks on its grey crown and on its whitish belly. 
Deneriptioii. Head and crown grey streaked with black ; a black stripe 
runs through the eye and is continued round the nape to form a black collar, 
below which is a broader light grey band spotted with minute black spots : 
mantle dark grey ; back, rump and upper tail-coverts brilliant cobalt blue ; 
tail duller blue. Wings dark grey to black, with a white alar patch and with 
most of the flight feathers and some of the coverts washed with blue. Throat 
white ; cheeks, ear-coverts and rest of lower surface buffy white streaked and 
spotted with brown : axilliaries and under wing-coverts white with a black 
patch in the centre of the under surface of the wing. Iris dark brown ; bill, 
upper mandible dull dark red, lower light red-pink ; legs dull pink, darker 
on anterior surface. Length 7 inches. 
