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Genus XXIV. KINGSFISHER. 
N° 1. Great brown K. 
2. Coromandel K. 
3. Little Indian K. 
Alcedo gigantea, Ind. Orn. i. p. 245. 16 
Great brown Kingsfifher, Gen. Syx. ii. p. 609. 1.—P#ill. Voy, pl. in p. 287. Ye 
White's Fournal, pl. in p. 137. GREAT BROWN- 
K. 
FiIS inhabits New Holland, where it is called Googo-ne-gang; is Descrirtion. 
not numerous, and never feen but finely; feeds on infects, worms, 
and fometimes feeds. The note like a laugh: the flight is flow and 
fhort: fometimes varies in having a little white in the middle of the 
wing. 
; Z. 
Alcedo Coromanda, Jud. Orn. i. p. 252. 19. - COROMANDEL 
Coromandel Kingsfifher, Ind. Zool, (4to.) p. 73. 92 K. 
IZE of a Blackbird: bill and irides reddith: the head, hind part Description. 
of the neck, back, wings, and tail, are of a reddifh lilac colour, 
gloffed with violet: the quills are much the fame outwardly, but of a 
yellowifh rufous colour within: on the rump is a perpendicular ftreak 
of blueifh white: throat white: the reft of the under parts light 
rufous: legs reddifh. 
Inhabits the coaft of Coromandel. PLACE. 
