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EGYPTIAN KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo jEgyptia. A. macroura fusca maculisferrugineis, gvla sub- 

 ferruginca, abdomine fcmoribusquc allndis maeulis cinereis, cauda 

 cirwascente. Lath. ind. orn. 



Brown Kingfisher with ferruginous spots, subferruginous throat, 

 whitish belly and thighs marked with cinereous spots, and sub- 

 cinereous tail. 



Alcedo ./Egyptia. Hasselq. it. p. 245. Lin. Gmel. 



Egyptian Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



THIS is described by Hasselquist as of the size 

 of the COITUS Cornix or Royston Crow: the bill 

 blackish; more than an inch broad at the base, 

 and two inches long: the head, shoulders, and 

 back brown, varied with oblong ferruginous spots: 

 the sides the same, with bright ferruginous spots, 

 broadest at the tips of the feathers: the throat 

 ferruginous-white : the belly and thighs whitish, 

 with longitudinal broadish cinereous spots: upper 

 tail-coverts quite white: quills spotted with white 

 on the inner webs, principally at the tips: tail 

 even at the end, and inclining to ash-colour: 

 legs pale green: claws blackish. Inhabits lower 

 Egypt 5 building in Sycamore Trees and Date 

 Palms, and feeding on frogs, insects, and small 

 fish. 



I know not whether Hasselquist was sufficiently 

 conversant in Ornithology to have at all times ac- 

 curately distinguished the genera of birds. It is 

 not impossible that he may have referred to the 



