Alcedo chloris Boddaert, Tabl. Pl. Enl. (1783), 49.
Halcyon chloris Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 273,
pl. 7, fig. 3; Hand-List (1900), 2, 60; Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds'
Eggs (1903), 3, 41; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 55.
Sauropatis chloris Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 3,
135, fig. 38 (head).
Ti-ca-rol', Bohol; ba-ca-ca, Cagayancillo; tac-ca-rit, Ticao.
Bantayan (McGregor); Banton (Celestino); Basilan (Steere,
Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Batan (McGregor);
Bohol (Everett); Bongao (Everett); Cagayancillo (McGregor);
Cagayan Sulu (Guillemard); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester);
Caluya (Porter); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Camiguin S. (Murray);
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Cebu (Murray, Meyer, Everett, Bourns &
Worcester, McGregor); Cuyo (McGregor); Dinagat (Everett); Fuga
(McGregor); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester);
Leyte (Everett, Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Meyer,
Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor);
Maestre de Campo (McGregor & Worcester); Marinduque (Steere
Exp.); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Mindanao (Steere,
Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester,
Celestino, Goodfellow); Mindoro (Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns &
Worcester, McGregor, Porter), Negros (Layard, Steere, Everett,
Keay, Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Steere
Exp., Bourns & Worcester, White); Panay (Murray, Steere Exp.,
Bourns & Worcester); Romblon (McGregor); Samar (Steere Exp.,
Bourns & Worcester); Semirara (McGregor & Worcester); Sibay
(McGregor & Worcester); Sibutu (Everett); Sibuyan (Bourns &
Worcester, McGregor); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino);
Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester, Everett); Tablas (Bourns &
Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester); Ticao (McGregor);
Verde (McGregor); Y'Ami (McGregor). Aru, Molucca, Tenimber,
Lesser Sunda, and Sula Islands, Sumatra, Java, Celebes, Mysol.
Adult.--Forehead and crown greenish blue, set off by a black line which
begins at lores, passes under eye to ear-coverts and meets its fellow
on hind neck; this followed by a white collar; a spot of white behind
each nostril; wings, back, rump, and tail blue; scapulars greenish
blue like crown; rump and upper tail-coverts lighter and bluer;
tail, primaries, and secondaries deeper blue; under parts all white;
tail and wings blackish; wing-lining and axillars white; sexes alike
in color. Iris dark brown; bill black except a wedge-shaped space
on lower mandible which is pale yellow or dirty white. A male from
Cagayancillo measures: Length, 240; wing, 105; tail, 70; culmen from
base, 50; tarsus, 13. A female from Bohol: Length, 246; wing, 107;
tail, 71; culmen from base, 52; tarsus, 15; middle toe with claw, 27.
Young.--Immature birds have the feathers of breast, sides of neck
and breast, and sometimes the white collar, edged with black or dusky
brown forming crescentic marks on the breast.
"The commonest of Philippine kingfishers. Frequently observed perching
on native houses in villages and very common in coconut groves. Not
infrequently found fishing along small fresh-water streams in the
open, less common along wooded streams. Especially abundant in
mangrove swamps and along the seashore. The usual native name is
'tick-a-rool'." (Bourns and Worcester MS.)