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the head and upper parts of the neck is very 

 thinly covered with narrow feathers like hairs, 

 but the fore part of the neck and breast are. fur- 

 nished with long ones, pointed at the ends and 

 of a white colour ; the bill is pale and about an 

 inch in length, and on the forehead just at the 

 base of the bill is a short blunt knob of a brown- 

 ish colour, in length about a quarter of an 

 inch ; the tongue which is nearly as long as the 

 ■bill, is bristly at the end ; the legs are brown. 



THE GREAT BROWN KING'S FISHER. 



This bird is eighteen inches in length; the 

 bill black above and white, beneath; the fea- 

 thers narrow and long, so as to form a crest, 

 they are of brown colours streaked with a paler 

 brown ; the back and wings brown ; the lower 

 part of the back and rump pale blue-green ; 

 the outer edges of the quills blue within and 

 the tips black ; on the wing covert is a patel of 

 glossy blue-green, and the tail is barred with 

 ferruginous and steel black glossed with pur- 

 ple, t% end for an inch, white; the under part 

 of the body is white, transversely streaked with 

 dusty lines; the legs are yellow, and the claws 

 black. 



PENNATIOtf PARROT. 



The body of this bird is crimson; the fea- 

 thers on the back are black ; the chin, throat, 



