She lays 5 or 6 greenish eggs, marked with small 

 black spots. 



Its food is the larva of insects. 



" Montagu observes, that it often smells of the 

 larvae of Phalena Cossus; and that they never climb 

 down a tree, but always up." 



GENUS X. 



ALCEDO. 



Bill long triangular, tongue short, sharp pointed ; 

 legs short, feet, in most species gressorial. 



1. ISPIDA. KING-FISHER. 



A .atro-viridis, subtusfulva, dorso cceruleo nilidissimo, 

 vertice maculis transversis c&ruleis. Shaw. 



The bill is two inches long, and blackish ; base of 

 the lower mandible orange ; irides light hazel ; crown 

 and coverts of the tail bright azure ; under parts dull 

 orange ; legs red orange. 



The king-fisher generally deposits her eggs in an 

 ascending rats-hole. 



The nest is composed of the bones of fishes, the 

 castings of the parent birds. 



The eggs are 7, white and transparent. 



