Lilac kingfisher Lilac kingfisher The lilac kingfisher or Celebes flat-billed kingfisher ("Cittura cyanotis") is a resident breeding bird in the lowlands of the Indonesia island of Sulawesi and the neighbouring Sangihe and Talaud Islands. It is the only member of the genus "Cittura". The first formal description of the lilac kingfisher was by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1824 under the binomial name "Dacelo cyanotis". The genus "Cittura" was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848. The genus name is from classical Greek "kitta" for "magpie" and "oura" for "tail". The specific epithet "cyanotis" is from classical
Striped kingfisher Striped kingfisher The striped kingfisher ("Halcyon chelicuti") is a species of bird in the tree kingfisher subfamily. It was first described by Edward, Lord Stanley, in "Salt's Voyage to Abyssinia" in 1814 as "Chelicut kingfisher" "Alaudo Chelicuti". The genus name "Halcyon" comes from a bird in Greek legend generally associated with the kingfisher. There was an ancient belief that the halcyon nested on the sea, which it calmed in order to lay its eggs on a floating nest. The species' name "chelicuti" derives from Chelicut in Ethiopia, the location at which Stanley's type specimen was obtained. This is a highly