SPOTTED BRASILIAN KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo Maculata. A, fusca, jlavesccnti-maculata, subtus alba 

 fusco-maculata, gulajlava. Lin. Gmel. Lath. ind. orn. 



Brown Kingfisher with yellowish spots ; beneath white with brown 

 spots, and yellow throat. 



Matuiti. Raii. syn. Will. orn. Buff. <w>. 



Brasilian spotted Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



DESCRIBED by Marcgrave: size that of a Star- 

 ling: bill red, with the upper mandible a little bent 

 at the tip : upper parts of the body brown, spotted 

 with pale yellow : quills and tail brown, marked 

 by transverse pale yellow spots: throat yellow: 

 under parts white, marked with small brown spots: 

 legs cinereous. Native of Brasil. 



CAYENNE KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo Cayanensis. A. cceruka subtus alba, fascia infra occiput 

 tiigra, uropygio mridi-cceruko. Lath. ind. orn. 



Blue Kingfisher white beneath, with a black bar below the hind- 

 head, and blue-green rump. 



Taparara. Buff. ois. 



Cayenne Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



THIS species, which is described by Buffon under 

 the name of Taparara, is a native of Cayenne and 

 Guiana: its size is that of a Starling, and its length, 

 according to the accurate Brisson, nine inches and 



