White-bellied kingfisher explained

The white-bellied kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster) is a species of kingfisher in the subfamily Alcedininae that occurs in parts of equatorial west Africa. The first formal description of the species was by the British zoologist Louis Fraser in 1843 under the binomial name Halcyon leucogaster.^{[1] [2]}

There are three subspecies:^[3]

• Corythornis leucogaster bowdleri (Neumann, 1908) – Guinea to Mali and Ghana
• Corythornis leucogaster leucogaster (Fraser, 1843) – Nigeria to north west Angola, Bioko Island
• Corythornis leucogaster leopoldi (Dubois, AJC, 1905) – east Congo to south Uganda and northwest Zambia

The white-bellied kingfisher is in length with a weight of around . It has ultramarine upperparts and a red bill. The underparts are rufous-chestnut apart from a central white band. The sexes are alike.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Peters . James Lee . James L. Peters . 1945 . Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 5 . 5 . Harvard University Press . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 176 .
2. Fraser . Louis . Louis Fraser . 1843 . Halcyon leucogaster . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 11 . 120 . 4 .
3. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2017 . Rollers, ground rollers & kingfishers . World Bird List Version 7.3 . International Ornithologists' Union . 3 December 2017 .
4. Book: Fry . C. Hilary. Fry . Kathie. Harris . Alan . 1992 . Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, and Rollers. Christopher Helm . London . 978-0-7136-8028-7 . 204–205 .