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five lines : the upper part of the head, the back, 

 wings, and tail are of a fine blue; but the quills 

 and tail-feathers are blackish or dusky on their 

 inner webs: the rump and covert -feathers of the 

 tail of a brilliant beryl-blue or sea-green colour: 

 beneath the hind head is a transverse black band: 

 the throat, neck, breast, belly, thighs, and lower 

 tail-coverts are white: the upper mandible is black; 

 the lower red, as are also the legs and feet. 



GREEN-HEADED KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo chlorocephala. A. viridi-ccerulea subtus alba, vert ice viridi 



?iigro marginato. 

 Blue-green Kingfisher white beneath, with green crown margined 



with black. 

 Alcedo chlorocephala. A. viridis, collo albo, torque nigro, alis 



caudaque thalassinis. Lin. Gmel. 

 Alcedo chlorocephala. A. cceruleo-viridis subtus colloque albo, 



capite viridi, torque nigro. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Martin pecheur a tete verte. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 783. /. 2. 

 Green-headed Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



A HIGHLY elegant species; length about nine 

 inches: colour of the upper parts green, deepest on 

 the back, and changing to blue-green on the wings 

 and tail; the lower part of the quill-feathers dusky: 

 crown of the head deep green, bounded by black, 

 a stripe of that colour passing from the base of the 

 bill across the eyes, and uniting behind : the neck 

 and under parts of the bird are white, but some- 

 what dusky on the abdomen. Described by Buffon 



