410 CLASS AVES. , 



Gray-fronted Kingfisher. A. Cinereifrons. Vieill. 

 Gal. 187. 



Blue above ; wing-coverts and scapulars black ; throat 

 and belly whitish ; upper mandible yellow, with red 

 and black spots ; forehead grey. Malimba. 



Biru Kingfisher. A. Biru. Horsf. Java. Col. 239. 

 Pale azure ; quills, brown within, beneath white. 

 Java. 



Half-collared Kingfisher. A. Semitorquata. Swain- 

 son 111. 154. 



Bluish-green ; beneath, bufF ; black bars on the head, 

 and collar, and on the breast. Africa. 



Asiatic Kingfisher. A. Asiatica. lb. 50. 



Shining-blue, above ; beneath, rufous ; head, black, 

 transversely banded with blue. India. 



And sometimes they have the lower mandible 



swelled out. 



Cape Kingfisher. Al. Capensis. 599. 



Blue green above, inclining to ash ; underneath, 

 fulvous ; chin white. Fourteen inches. South Africa, 

 and probably India and China. 



Black-capped Kincfisher. Al. Atricapilla. 673. 



Head and neck, above, black ; upper parts deep blue ; 

 throat and belly white and rufous. Ten inches. 

 China. 



Smyrna Kingfisher. Al. Smyrnensis. 232, and 894. 



Chesnut ; throat white. Eight and a half inches. 

 Smyrna. 



