K I N G S F I S H E R. 



It may be remarked, that throughout this genus, blue, in dif- 

 ferent ihades,, is the molt predominant colour. 



609 



•With FOUR TOES. *• 



GREAT 

 Le grand Martin pefcheur de la Nouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. p. 171. v-iNPSFfSHFR 



pi. 106. — PL enl. 663. 

 Le plus grand Martin pecheur, Buf. tif, vii. p. 181. 



*"T" S HIS is the largeft fpecies yet known, and is in length eigh- 

 teen inches, The bill is very large, ftrong, thick at the 



bafe, bent at the end, and three inches and a quarter long ; the 

 upper mandible black, the under white, with the bafe only black : 

 the feathers of the head are elongated fufficient to form a mode- 

 rate creft : the feathers are narrow and brown, ftreaked with paler 

 brown : fides of the head above the eye, and hind part of the 

 head, dirty white, with a mixture of dufky; beneath the eyes, 

 and the fides of the neck, deep brown : upper part of the back 

 and wings olive brown ; the lower part and rump fine pale blue 

 green : on the middle of the wing coverts a large patch of glofly 

 pale blue green : outer edges of the quills blue; within, and tips, 

 black j the bafe of fome of them white, forming a fpot : tail five 

 inches and a half long, rounded at the end, barred ferruginous, 

 and fteel black, with a glofs of purple ; the end, for one inch, 

 white : the under' parts of the body dirty white, tranfverfely 

 itreaked with narrow dufky lines : legs yellow : claws black. 



Jn one of thefe, fuppofed to be a female, the head was not 

 crefted : the crown plain deep brown : the under parts of the 

 body white, which encircled the neck as a collar, at. the lower 

 part : the whole back and wings olive brown ; fome of the rr.id- 



4 1 die 



Description* 



Female. 



