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waved with black above; underneath, and a band on wn side 
of the neck, reddish; a wide band of the most beautiful. aqua- 
marina blue along the back. i 
The species foreign to Europe have ee a. smooth plumage 
variegated with different shades of blue and green. ‘ 
They may be distinguished among themselves by the beak, 
which in some is simply straight and pointed as in the common 
species,(1) and in others, has an inflated lower mandible.(2) 
Of those found in New Holland and its neighbouring coun- 
tries, some have a mandible hooked at the point.(3) The greyish - 
and dull plumage of several of the latter is an indication of their 
not visiting the water, and in fact they feed on insects. 
Cryx, Lacep. 
Kingfishers with the usual beak, but in which the internal toe is 
deficient. Three species are found in India.(4) 
og ee Topus, Lin. 
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The Todies are small birds: of ‘America Pasaer litte the King- 
fishers in their general form. as well as in their feet and elongated 
beak, but the latter is horizontally flattened, and obtuse at the point. 
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‘a Ale. (afra, Sh.) maxima, Enl. 679; ;—aleyon, 715 and 593, and Wils., Am. 
Til, _XXXill, 1;—torquata, 284;—rudis, 62 and 716; ;—bicolor, 592;—americana, 591;— 
bengalensis, Edw., I;—ceruleo-cephala, Enl. 356, 2;—cristata, 756, 1;—madagas- 
cariensis, 778, 1;—purpured, 778, 2;—superciliosa, 756, 1 and 2;—cinerifrons, Vieill. 
Gal. 187;—Biru, Horsf. Jav., and T. Col. 289, 1;—semi-torquata, Swains. Il. 154;— 
asiatica, Ib. 50. $ 
2) Al, capensis, 599; ;—atricapilla, 673;—smirnensis, 232 and 894, one of the two 
species distinguished by Aristotle;—dea, 116, of which Vigors makes -his genus 
TanysiereRa;—chlorocephala, 783, 2;—coromanda, Somer. 218;—leucocephala (ja- 
wanica, Sh.), 757;—senegalensis, 594 and 356; ;—cancrophaga, Sh. 334;—melanor- 
“hyncha,,T. Col. 391; s—omnicolor, T. Col., 135;—diops, Id. Col. 212;—Dacelo con-. 
hee Id. Col. 346;—Dacelo cinnamominus, Swains. Ill., 67. It is from this division . 
hat M. Leach has made his genus Dacexo. 
NB. In several of the fig. Enl. the beaks ate not sufficiently inflated. 
_ (3) Alcedo fusca (gigantea, Sh.), Enl. 663; Vieill. Gal. 188;—Dacelo pulchella, 
Horsf. Jay. and T. Col. 262;—Dac. Gaudichaud, Quoy and Gaym. Voy. de Freycin. 
mpl. xxy- 
___N.B. M. Lesson separates the species with denticulated beaks from the Ring- 
" shers , by the name of Syma; and by that of Topiramruts, those whose beak is a 
Bice depressed and without a ridge, such as Alcedo sacra, Lath. See his Mem, 
pos those of the Soc. d’Hist. Nat. tom. III, pl. xi and xii. 
| (4) Aleedo trydactyla, Pall. and Gm.; Pall., Spic., VI, pl. U, f. 2; Sonner. pl. 
-xxxii; ;—Ale. tribrachys, Sh. Nat. Misc. XVI, pl. 681;—Ale. meninting, Horsf., Col, 
239, 2. 
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