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Red-headed Motmot. (Motmot Dombey.) Vaill. loc. 

 cit. pi. 39, and Vieill. pi. 190. 



Like the last, but the head is red; and it has but 

 ten caudal feathers, of which the other has twelve. 



Pr. Marciiy Spix. 9. 



Head, green ; cheeks, and spot on chest, black ; quills 

 bluish-chesnut. 



The Tutre of Paraguay of Azara, No. 52, is at least 

 nearly allied to these. 



The Kingfishers. (Alcedo L.) 



Have shorter feet than the bee-eaters, and the bill 

 much longer. It is stiaight, angular, and pointed. 

 The tongue and tail are very short. They live on 

 small fish, which they catch by precipitating them- 

 selves into the water from the top of some branches, 

 where they remain perched to watch their prey. 

 Their stomach is a membranous sack. They nestle 

 like the bee-eaters in holes on the rivers' banks. 

 They are found in both continents. 



The European Species (Alcedo Ispida.) Enl. 77. 



As large as a sparrow ; is greenish above, waved 

 with black ; a broad band of the finest aquamarine 

 blue, predominates along the back ; the under 

 part, and a band on each side of the neck, are 

 reddish. 



The foreign species, like our own, have almost all 



