LITTLE INDIAN KINGFISHER. 



purple stripe or band, extending to a considerable 

 distance on the neck; the wings and tail are also 

 of a dusky colour. 'The Minute Kingfisher is said 

 to be a native of Africa, but Buffon, considering it 

 as a species of Todus, concluded that, like the rest 

 of that genus, it must be an inhabitant of America. 



LITTLE INDIAN KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo Bengalensis. A. quadruncialis vtridi-carvlea, vertice nigro~ 



undulato, subtus rufa. 

 Blue-green Kingfisher, measuring about four inches in length; 



beneath rufous ; the crown unduiated with black. 

 Little Indian Kingfisher. Edw. pL U . 

 Alcedo Ispida. Var. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Alcedo Bengalensis. A. cceruleo-viridis, subtus rufa, capite cceruleo- 



striato, gula alba, per oculos vitta rufa. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Martin-pcheur a tete bleue. Bujf. ois. 

 Blue-headed Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



A VERY small species, measuring about four 

 inches and a half in length. It is described and 

 figured by Edwards, who observes that the general 

 likeness is so great between this bird and the Com- 

 mon Kingfisher that one description might serve 

 for both; and Linnaeus, from the contemplation of 

 Edwards's figures, seems to have been convinced 

 of its being no other than a diminutive variety of 

 the European Kingfisher: the quill-feathers and 

 tail are however of a brown colour, without any 

 appearance of green on the edges, and the bill of 

 the male is red. The female seems to differ in 



