KINGS FISHER. 



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Black-capped KingsfiHier, Geit. Sytu ii, p. 624. N* 15. 15, 



Var'. C. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill four inches, colour a deep red: BLACK-CAP- 

 the head and all the upper parts of the body deep blue : wing 

 coverts dufky black : quills the fame, with the inner webs of ^^ r-iption. 

 many white, and the tips of all black : the under parts of the body 

 are white, running back at the lower part of the neck like a cref- 

 cent : legs black. 



I met with this in the eoUeftion of the late Mr. Boddam, It 

 appeared to me as a variety of my Black-capped Kingsjifier, if not 

 of a different fex. 



Common Kingsfifher, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 626. N" 16. — ArS, Zool. ii. p. z8o. A. i6, 



Alcedo ifpida, MuMer, N" 10^.— Faun. Arag. p. 73. ■(- COMMON Xj 



'X'HIS is found only in the temperate parts of Rujfta and Sibi- 

 ria : not common in Denmark. A fpecimen I met with from 

 China was precifely the fame, though lefs than ours : the name 

 given it was Ju-Ioang. I have feen it alfo exadly painted in 

 colleftions of drawings from India. 



Blue-headed Kingsfifher, Gen. Syn, ii. p. 631. N" 20. 20. 



W M./. BLUE-HEADED 



OIZIE. o( t\\Q Blue-headed onQ. Bill red: crown of the head barred Var. A. 



blue and black j the edges of the feathers fringed with rufous j EscRIPTIo^f. 

 the reft of the head and neck, as far as the breaft, rufous yellow : 



Q^2 back. 



