Dacelo lindsayi Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97.
Halcyon lindsayi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17,
286; Hand-List (1900), 2, 61; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List
(1906), 55.
Luzon (Lindsay, Eydoux & Souleyet, Möllendorff, Cuming, Everett,
Heriot, Steere Exp., Bridges).
"Adult male.--Above green, a little brighter on the center of lower
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts; lateral upper tail-coverts and
sides of lower back and rump dingy green, the scapulars, mantle,
and wing-coverts each having a distinct spot of ocherous-buff;
quills brown, externally edged with fulvous, secondaries greener, and
terminally spotted with ocherous like the scapulars; tail-feathers dull
greenish brown, fringed with sandy buff at the ends, the penultimate
feather notched with buff on the inner web, the outermost one on both
webs, producing a banded appearance; head green, the forehead with a
few cinnamon feathers; lores black, surmounted by a streak of pale
cinnamon-buff reaching above the eye and continued into a line of
bright cobalt, which encircles the hinder crown and nape; feathers
round the eye black, continued into a band which encircles the hind
neck, and is followed by a band of cinnamon feathers, fringed with
black; sides of face and ear-coverts cinnamon; throat pale cinnamon,
separated from the band on the sides of the face by a broad band
of bright cobalt, which occupies the cheeks and lateral margin of
the throat; fore neck and breast mottled, the feathers being white,
margined with green, the green edges diminishing in size on the lower
breast, till they gradually disappear on the abdomen, which, with the
under tail-feathers, is pure white; sides of body like the breast;
thighs blackish, tipped with ocherous; under wing-coverts, axillars,
and quill-lining fawn-buff. 'Bill black, the culmen and under mandible
yellow; feet light green; iris brown.' (Everett.) Length, 241; culmen,
47; wing, 106; tail, 79; tarsus, 16.
"Adult female.--Resembles the male, but the band encircling the
crown is green instead of blue; the broad band on the cheeks is also
green, not blue; the throat is white; and the green edgings to the
breast-feathers are less pronounced. 'Bill black, the culmen and
mandible chrome-yellow; feet light green; claws horn-yellow; iris
brown.' (Everett.) Length, 249; culmen, 47; wing, 109; tail, 89;
tarsus, 16.
"Young male.--Like the adult male, but with smaller ocherous spots
on the upper surface; the band round the crown and the cheek-stripe
not so blue as in the adult, but not so green as in the female;
under surface as in adult, but with a fulvescent tinge throughout.
"Young female.--Duller than the adult female, and with smaller ocherous
spots; otherwise like the old female, and having a green band round
the crown." (Sharpe.)