KINGFISHER. 17 
bill, blackish brown, reddish at the base: from the lower 
corner of it proceeds a streak of bluish green, joining to that 
colour on the back, also a dusky streak to the eye; iris, reddish 
hazel; behind each eye is a patch of light orange brown, 
succeeded by a white one. Forehead, on the sides rufous, 
the commencement of the same colour behind the eye; crown, 
deep olive green, the feathers tipped with light green; the 
neck has a patch of green down the sides, in front of the 
patches behind the eye; nape, as the head; chin and throat, 
yellowish white; breast, orange brown, with a sprinkling of 
green by the shoulder of the wing; upper part of the back, 
green; down the back 1s a list of greenish blue, varying in 
different lights. 
Greater and lesser wing coverts, deep greenish blue, mar- 
gined with a paler shade, forming spots; primaries, brownish 
black, edged with olive green; secondaries, the same; greater 
and lesser under wing coverts, pale chesnut. Tail, greenish 
blue, the shafts black or dusky; underneath, brownish black, 
edged with olive green; under tail coverts, light orange brown; 
legs, very short and pale red, with a tinge of yellowish brown; 
toes and claws, the same. 
The female is less vivid in all her colours, and the white 
on the side of the neck is also more subdued: the Dill is 
not so long as in the male. 
The young have the bill wholly black; iris, darker than in 
the old bird 
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