BELTED KINGflSHER* ^ 275 



XL KINGFISHER. Gen, Birds, XXIII. 



Kingfiftier, Catejhy, i. 69. jg^_ Belte». 



American Kingfiflier, Ediv. uj. 



Le Martin pefcheur hupe de la Caroline, Brtjhn, iv, 512. & de St. Domtngue, 515. 



Alcedo Alcyon, Lin, Sjjl, 180. — Latham, i. 637. 



Le Jaguacati, De Buffoti,V\i, zio- — Lev. Mus. 



KWith a black bill, twa inches and a half long : head crefted 

 . with long bluifli grey feathers : above the upper mandible of 

 the bill, on each fide, is a white fpot; beneath each eye is another: 

 chin and throat white : the upper part of the breaft croffed by a 

 broad grey belt ; the lower part, and belly, white : the fides of a ver- 

 milion color ; in fome croffing the breaft : upper part of the neck, the 

 back, and coverts of the wings, of a pleafant bluifli grey : the fecon- 

 daries of the fame color j their ends, and thofe of the lower order of 

 coverts, tipt with white : primaries black, barred with white: tail grey; 

 the two middle feathers plain ; the reft barred with white : the legs 

 oraRge. Length thirteen inches. Weight three ounces and a half. 



Inhabits Bud/on' s Bay, Norton Sound, and other parts oi North Ame- Place. 



rka. The Achalala5li, i. e. the Devourer of fift:, of the Mexicans *, 

 feems to be the fame bird. It has the fame cry, manners, and folirary 

 difpofition, with the European fpecies ; and feeds not only on fifh, but 

 Lizards. It makes its neft in the face of high banks, penetrating 

 deep into them in an horizontal direilion. Lays four white eggs, 

 which difcharge the young in June. It migrates in Mexico ; is there 

 eaten, but is obferved to have the fame ranknefs as other pifcivorous 

 birds. 



• Fernandta, Nov, Hi/f, 13. 



