Melidora macrorrhina Lesson, 1827

Large, dumpy looking kingfisher, black eyestripe and black band from chin joining at rear to form broad collar, bordered white below. Male of nominate race has broad blue or turquoise fringes to black crown feathers, upper-parts and wing coverts brown with buff tips, under-parts whitish, large bill with black upper mandible, horn coloured lower mandible, distinct hooked tip, iris very dark brown, legs and feet greenish-grey. Female yellowish-green fringes to foreahead and crown, buffy underparts. Juvenile darker cap, under-parts rufous-buff to yellowish-buff, noticeable dusky margins to throat and breast feathers.