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waved with black abovej underneath, and a band on each side 

 of the neck, reddish; a wide band of the most beautiful aqua- 

 marina blue along the back. 



The species foreign to Europe have also a smooth plumage 

 variegated with different shades of blue and green. 



They may be distinguished among themselves by the beak, 

 which in some is simply straight and pointed as in the common 

 species,(l) and in others, has an inflated lower mandible.(2) 



Of those found in New Holland and its neighbouring coun- 

 tries, some have a mandible hooked at the point. (3) The greyish 

 and dull plumage of several of the latter is an indication of their 

 not visiting the water, and in fact they feed on insects. 



Ceyx, Lacep. 



Kingfishers with the usual beak, but in which the internal toe is 

 deficient. Three species are found in India.(4) 



ToDuSj Lin. 



The Todies are small birds of America resembling the King- 

 fishers in their general form as well as in their feet and elongated 

 beak, but the latter is horizontally flattened, and obtuse at the point. 



(1) Ale- {afra, Sh.) maxima, Enl. 679; alcycm, 715 and 593, and Wils., Am. 

 Ill, xxxiii, 1; torquata, 284; rudisy 62 and 716; bicolor, 592; americana, 591; 

 bengalensis, Edvv., II; coeruleo-cephala, Enl. 356, 2; cristata, 756, 1; madagas- 

 cariensis, 778,1; purpurea, 778,2; superclUosa, 756, 1 and 2; cmerifrons, Vieill. 

 Gal. 187; Biru, Horsf. Jav., andT. Col. 289, 1; semi-iorquata, Swains. 111. 154; 

 asiatica, lb. 50. 



(2) M. capcnsis, 599; atricapilla, &7o', smirnensis, 232 and 894, one of the two 

 .species distinguished by Aristotle; dea, 116, of which Vigors makes his genus 

 TAifxsiPTEaA; chloroccpJiala, 783, 2; coromanda, Somer. 218; leucocephala (ja- 

 vanica, Sh.), 757\ senegaknsis, 594 and 356; cancrophaga, Sh. 334; melanor- 

 hyncfia, T. Col. 391; omnicolor, T. Col., 135; diops, Id. Col. 212; Daceh con- 

 creta, Id. Col. 346; Dacelo cinnamominus. Swains. 111., 67. It is from this division 

 that M. Leach has made his genus Dacelo. 



N.B. In several of the fig. Enl. the beaks are not sufficiently inflated. 



(3) Jllcedo fusca [gigantea, Sh.), Enl. 663; Vieill. Gal. 188; Dacelo pulchella, 

 Horsf Jav. and T. Col. 262; Dae. Gaudichaud, Quoy and Gaym. Voy. deFreycin. 



pi. XXV. 



N.B. M. Lesson separates the species with denticulated beaks from the King- 

 fishers, by the name of Sxma; and by that of Todihampues, those whose beak is a 

 little depressed and without a ridge, such as Jllcedo sacra, Lath. See his Mem. 

 among those of the Soc. d'Hist. Nat. tom. Ill, pi. xi and xii. 



(4) Jlcedo trydactyla, Pall, and Gm.; Pall, Spic, VI, pi. 11, f 2; Sonner, pi.- 

 xxxii; Ale. tribrachys, Sh. Nat. Misc. XVI, pi. 681; Ale. mminting, Horsf., Col. 

 239, 2. 



