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INSESSOSES. 



FISSIROSTRES. 



HALCYONID^. 



HALCYONID^E. 



THE BELTED KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo alcyon. 



Alcedo alcyon, The Belted Kingfisher, THOMPSON, Birds of Ireland, vol. i. 



p. 373. 

 WILS. Amer. Orn. Jardine's Edit. 



vol. i. p. 348. 

 SWAINS, and RICH. F. Bor. Amer. 



vol. ii. p. 339. 

 NUTT. Man. vol. i. p. 594, and 



vol. ii. p. 609. 

 ,, AUD. Birds of Amer. vol. iv. p. 205. 



Two individuals of this species have been met with in 

 Ireland about the same period, and were noticed in a com- 



