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3IALIMBA KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo Malimbica. A. thalassina, gula abdomineque albidis, tec- 



tricibus alarum fasciaque transoculari nigris. 

 Sea-green or beryl Kingfisher, with the throat and belly whitish; 



the wing-coverts and streak across the eyes black. 

 Le Martin-pecheur de Malimbe. Sonnini Buff. 



THIS bird, according to Monsr. Sonnini, is per- 

 fectly distinct from the Cape Kingfisher, to which 

 it is much allied in the form of its bill, and, in some 

 degree, in the distribution of its colours. Its total 

 length is nine inches and a half, of which the bill 

 measures two and a half, and is ten lines in dia- 

 meter at its base: the tail measures three inches, 

 and the wings, when closed, reach half its length : 

 the forehead is grey ; the head, neck, back, rump, 

 tail, and breast of a beryl or sea-green colour: the 

 throat and belly whitish : on each side of the head 

 is a black streak across the eyes: the wing-coverts 

 and scapulars are black: the quill-feathers sea- 

 green externally, but brown within, and at their 

 tips: the irides rose-coloured: the upper mandible 

 yellow, spotted with red and black on the edges 

 and tip: the lower mandible black: the legs and 

 feet brown : in the female the head, neck, back, 

 and breast are of a blueish grey, and the wing- 

 coverts and scapulars brown instead of black. 

 This species was discovered, according to Sonnini, 

 by Monsr. de Perrein, who observes that it is- 



