. The birds of South Africa. Birds -- South Africa. 82 ALCEDINID^ CORYTHOBKIS a shade of violet; quills dusky ; tail like the back; throat and a line of feathers on the side of the neck behind the ear-coverts white; a frontal patch, ear-coverts, cheeks and rest of the under surface including the axillaries and under wiug-coverts a rich rufous-buff. Iris brown ; bill and legs coral-red. Length in the flesh 5'90 ; in the skin 5-40 ; wing 2-3 ; tail I'O; culmen 1-35 ; tarsus 0-30. The adult female resembles the male. In the young bird both male and female, the back is more blackish and the blue i
. The birds of South Africa. Birds -- South Africa. 82 ALCEDINID^ CORYTHOBKIS a shade of violet; quills dusky ; tail like the back; throat and a line of feathers on the side of the neck behind the ear-coverts white; a frontal patch, ear-coverts, cheeks and rest of the under surface including the axillaries and under wiug-coverts a rich rufous-buff. Iris brown ; bill and legs coral-red. Length in the flesh 5'90 ; in the skin 5-40 ; wing 2-3 ; tail I'O; culmen 1-35 ; tarsus 0-30. The adult female resembles the male. In the young bird both male and female, the back is more blackish and the blue is cobalt rather than ultramarine and tips the black feathers ; below, the ear- coverts and cheeks are darker and spotted with black, the chest also is a duskier brown; bill black and much shorter; culmen only measuring about 1 inch; feet blackish tinged with Fig. SO.—Corynwrnis cyanostigma. x -J. Distribution.—The Malachite Kingfisher is found throughout the greater part of Africa south of the Sahara from Senegambia and Abyssinia (whence came Riippell's type) to the Colony and Natal. In South Africa it occurs abundantly, and as a resident where- ever there are suitable localities as follows : Cape Colony—Cape, Malmesbury, Oudtshoorn and Knysna (Victorin), Stockenstroom (Atmore), Cathcart (Boulger), Port Elizabeth, Peddie, East London Pondoland and Upiugton in Gordonia ; Natal—Durban (Shelley) Pinetowm (Stark), Newcastle (Butler), and Eshowe (Woodward) Orange Eiver Colony—Valsch river at Kroonstad (Symonds) Transvaal—Lydenburg, Rustenburg, and Potchefstroom (Ayres) Rhodesia—Sibanani west of Bulawayo (Gates), near Victoria Falls (Holub), Quae Quae and Umfuli rivers (Ayres); Portuguese east Africa—along the Zambesi (Kirk and Alexander). Habits.—This beautiful little bird is fairly abundant throughout. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of thes
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