292 BIED8. 



banks of streams, and are found in both continents. The European 

 species, 



A. ispida, Enl. 77; Naura. 144. The size of a Finch; greenish, 

 waved with black above ; underneath, and a band on each side of the 

 neck, reddish ; a wide band of the most beautiful atjuarnarina blue 

 along the back. 



The species foreign to Europe have almost all also a smooth 

 plumage variegated with different shades of blue and green. 



They may be distinguished among themselves by the bill, which 

 in some is simply straight and poijited as in the common species*, 

 and, in others, hks an inflated lower mandible f. 



Of those found in New Holland and its neighbouring countries, 

 some have a mandible hooked at the point];. The greyish and dull 

 plumage of several of the latter is an indication of their not visiting 

 tlie water ; and, in fact, they feed on insects, whence th^y have been 

 called King-hunters. 



Ceyx, Lacep, 



King-fishers with the usual bill, but in which the internal toe is defi 

 cient. Three species are found in India §- 



ToDUS, Lin. 



The Todies are small birds of America, resembling the King-fishers in 

 their general form, as well as in their f&et and elongated bill; but the 

 latter is horizontally flattened, and obtuse at the point. The tarsus .also 

 is higher, and the tail not .so short. They feed on flies, and build on the 

 ground IJ. 



We termiaate the history of this ordjer with the most singular of its ge- 



* Ak. {afro, Sh.) maxima^ EnL (>79i—aleyon, 715 iind 593, and Wils,, Am. Ill, 

 jcxxiii, 1; — twqnateL, 284; — rudis, 62 and 716; — hieolor, 592; — amert'cann, 591; — be»- 

 ■ga'ensis, Edw. II ; — cceruieo-eephata, Enl. 356, 2; — eristata, 756, 1 ; — madrigaseariensitf 

 778^ 1; — purpurea, 778, 2; — supercUiosa, 756, 1 ^ui 2;— leinerifrons, Vieill. Gal. 187; 



jB£r», Horst Jav., and T. Col. 28.9, 1; — sem-torquata, Swaias> IlL 154: — asiatioa, 



lb. 50. 



-j- Al. capenns, 599; — atricafaUa, G7 Z',—smirn€wis, 232 and 894, one of Ae tw« 

 species distinguished by Aristotle; — dea, 116, of which Vigors makes bis geuus Ta- 

 KTSIPTERA; — chlorecephala, 783, 2; — coromanda, Somer. 218; — leucocephata {jav^ 

 niea, Sh.), 757; — senegaknsh, !)9i and 356; — cancrophaga, ^\l $3i; — vielanorhynoa, 

 T.Col. 391; — omnirolvr,T. Col. \Zb;—diops, Id.Col. 212;— Daeefo eoncreta, Id. CoL 

 346; — Dacelo cinnamominfis, Swains. 111. 67- It is from this division that RL Leach 

 has made liLs genus Dacelo- 



N.B. In several of the :fig. Enl. the hills are not stifEciently injSiatei 



% Akcdofram {giganUa, Sk), Enl. 663; "V'ieilL Gal. l%^i■,— Dacelo puhAetIa, Horst 

 Jav, and T. Col. 262; — Dae. Gaudichaud, Qiioy and Gaym. Voy. de Freyein. pL xxr. 



N.B. M. Lesson sepaiates the cpecies -with denticalated bills from ti'.e King-fish<ers, 

 bj the name of Syma; and by that of Todibamphes, those whose bill is a little de- 

 pressed and without a ridge, such as Alcedo sacra, Latlb See Ms Mem. among thoss 

 of the Soe. d'Hist. Nat. tona. II I, pL xi and xiL 



§ Alcedo trydactyla, Pali, and Gm.; Pall. Spie. VI, pL 11, £ 2; Sonner, pi. xx.vgj 

 —Alc. tribrackys, Sh. Nat. Misc. XVI, pL 681;— ^/c. meninting, Hofs£, C )1. 239,2. 



il Todus viri'dis, Enl. 585, 1 and 2, and ViellL GaL I2i; — T.c<iencleiis, E ;1. 783, L 



Antkors have very improperly placed among the Todies, true Muscipetse, with.au 



