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on each side the neck is an obliquely descending 

 stripe dotted with white: the chin is also white; 

 the throat and fore part of the neck black: the 

 quills are black, tipped with white, and have a row 

 of white spots on each side, those of the inner web 

 being placed transversely: the wings, when closed, 

 reach beyond the middle of the tail, which is even 

 at the tip, and marked in the same manner as the 

 quill-feathers: the legs are black. The female is 

 said to differ in having the throat and part of the 

 neck pale ferruginous instead of black, and the 

 remainder of the under parts white, marked by 

 narrow transverse black lines. Native of Africa, 

 and principally found about the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



CINEREOUS KINGFISHER. 



Alccdo torquata. A. subcristata plumbea, alls caudaque albo-ma- 



culatis, subtus ferruginea collari albo. 

 Subcristated lead-coloured Kingfisher, with white-spotted wings 



and tail; beneath ferruginous with white collar. 

 Alcedo torquata. A. macroura subcristata cano-ccerulesccns, torque 



albo, alls caudaque albo-maculatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Achalalactli. Raii syn. 126. UAlatli. Buff", ois. 

 Martin-pescheur huppe du Mexique. PI. Enl. 284. 

 Cinereous Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



A VERY large species, and much allied to the 

 African and Belted Kingfishers: indeed it should 

 seem that Mr. Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, 

 considers it as the same with the latter, since he 



