CRESTED KINGFISHER. 







Alcedo cristata. A cristata ccerulta, crista nigro undulata, snbttes 



fulva, gula crissoquc albidis. 

 Crested blue Kingfisher with the crest undulated with black; 



beneath fulvous, with whitish throat and vent. 

 Alcedo cristata. A. brachyura subcristata cxrulca, subtus rufa t 



crista nigro-wdulata. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 The Crested Kingfisher. Edw. pi 33(5. 

 Alcedo cristata orientalis, #c. Seb. 1. pL 7.f. 4, 

 Le vintsi. Ruff. ois. PL Enl. 756.f. 1. 

 Crested Kingfisher. Lath. syn. Nat. Misc. I. pi. 13. 



A SPECIES of singular brilliancy and elegance, 

 It seems to have been first described by Edwards, 

 whose specimen appears to have been of rather 

 larger size than those of other authors, measuring 

 about five inches and a half in length. Edwards 

 describes it in the following manner* " The bill 

 is strait, sharp-pointed, ridged both above and 

 beneath, and of a blackish colour : from the lower 

 mandible of the bill the throat is white, which 

 whiteness passes round the neck, and forms a col- 

 lar: the crown of the head is covered with long 

 blue-green feathers variegated with black lines : 

 these feathers being long and loose, form a crest, 

 which I suppose the bird can raise or lower at 

 pleasure: the feathers immediately above the eyes 

 are blue : the hinder part of the neck, the back, 

 rump, wings, and tail are of an exceeding fine ul- 

 tramarine blue, the rump something lighter than 

 the other parts: the tips of the quills are dusky: 



