PICAEI^:. 
ALCEDINIM. 
Subfam. ALCEDININiE. 
Bill long, compressed, with the culmen keeled and the gonys straight. Wings reaching, 
when closed, beyond the middle of the tail ; the 1st quill longer than the oth. lail moderate 
or short. Legs and feet small. Tarsus hardly longer than the inner toe ; outer toe nearly as 
long as the middle, and united to it as far as the last joint; inner toe united to middle as far as 
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the first joint. 
Genus CERYLE. 
Bill typically long, very straight, the culmen scarcely bent towards the tip, flattened above, 
with a well-pronounced groove adjacent to it ; gonys very long and straight ; gape angulated. 
Nostrils linear and oblique. Wings moderate ; the 2nd and 3rd quills subequal and longest, and 
the 4th considerably longer than the 1st. Tail moderately long, about equal to the bill from tip 
to the gape, even at the tip. Tibia bare above the knee. Tarsus smooth, very short, much less 
than the middle toe ; feet with a broad sole. Outer toe nearly as long as the middle, and joined 
to it as far as the last joint; inner toe much shorter, and joined to the middle as far as the 1st 
joint ; hind toe very short. 
CERYLE RUDIS. 
(THE PIED KINGFISHER.) 
Alcedo rudis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 181 (1766); Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 84; Gould, B. of 
Eur. pi. 62 (1837). 
Ceryle rudis , Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 316 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 49 (1849) ; Kelaart, 
Prodromus, Cat. p. 119 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Llist. 1853, xii. p. 172; 
Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. p. 131 (1854) ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 232 
(1862); Layard, B. of S. Africa, p. 67 (1867); Tristram, Ibis, 1866, p. 84; Sharpe, 
Monog. Alced. pi. 19 (1868-71); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 424; Shelley, B. of 
Egypt, p. 167 (1872) ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 109 (1873) ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 14, 
et 1875, p. 282; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 52. 
Ispida rudis, Jerd. Madr. Journ. 1840, p. 232. 
Ceryle varia, Strickl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837, vi. p. 418. 
Ispida bitorquata, Swains. Classif. B. p. 336 (1827). 
Ceryle leucomelanura, Reichenbach, Handb. Alced. p. 21, pi. 309. fig. 3488 (1851). 
The Black-and-white Kingfisher, Edwards, pi. 9; Kelaart, Prodromus. Martin Pecheur non et 
blanc de Senegal, Buffon, PI. Enl. 62. 
