. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 227 [ 1980: 100(4]). Fig. 1. Distribution of the Halcyon chloris subspecies nearest to Arabia. A-B, abyssinica (coast at, and between, Suakin and Zeila). C, kalbaensis (Khawr Kalba, Arabia). D, vidali (Ratnagiri district, Konkan, India). Halcyon chloris was first reported from Arabia by Stanford in 1973, 19 years after Meinertzhagen (1954) wrote 'It is remarkable that no race of H. chloris occurs in Arabia'. The kingfisher, a $, was actually collected in January 1962 by Lt. Col. W. Stanford, from a mangrove swamp, thought at first to b
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 227 [ 1980: 100(4]). Fig. 1. Distribution of the Halcyon chloris subspecies nearest to Arabia. A-B, abyssinica (coast at, and between, Suakin and Zeila). C, kalbaensis (Khawr Kalba, Arabia). D, vidali (Ratnagiri district, Konkan, India). Halcyon chloris was first reported from Arabia by Stanford in 1973, 19 years after Meinertzhagen (1954) wrote 'It is remarkable that no race of H. chloris occurs in Arabia'. The kingfisher, a $, was actually collected in January 1962 by Lt. Col. W. Stanford, from a mangrove swamp, thought at first to be at Murair but later corrected to Khawr Kalba, the same locality which Gallagher and I visited 9 years later. Stanford's single specimen, now in the (), Tring, is similar to and was originally considered to be H. chloris abyssinica, & subspecies with a very restricted distribution along part of the Red Sea west coast (Fig. 1, A-B), from Suakin south to Zeila on the western coast of the Gulf of Aden (Peters 1945, Archer & Godman 1961). It is perhaps vagrant to southern Somalia and Kenya (Fry 1978), although this latter record is now in some doubt. With the addition of 2 further specimens from Khawr Kalba, certain constant differences are now evident between the White-collared kingfishers of the Red Sea population and those of eastern Arabia, enough to warrant separating them into 2 subspecies. Halcyon chloris kalbaensis subsp. nov. Holotype. Adult <£, collected 24 March 1971 by G. S. Cowles (collector's number GG181), at Khawr Kalba (2 5°oi 'N, 56°22'E), Sharjah State, United Arab Emirates, eastern Arabia. () reg. no. Description. Similar to abyssinica but differs in having a well defined white superciliary stripe extending from the sides of the forehead to above and past the eye. Above the ear coverts the white superciliary is suffused with blue-tipped feathers, giving a streaked area of light blue-green and Please note t
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