6i2 iC I N G S F I S H E R. 



Place, This fpecies inhabits Africa. Dr. Pallas fays, that he has fecw 



many of them, all of which have been brought from the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



3. Martin pecheur raippe, Buf.oif. vii. p. 188. —PI. enl. 6yg, 



Var. A.. 



Description. nPHIS, if not the very fame bird with the former, is not 

 greatly different. The length of it is fixteen inches. The 

 upper parts of the body blackifh grey, fpotted tranfverfely 

 with white : the bread, vent, and under tail coverts, rufous : the 

 reft of the under parts white. This feems much to cor- 

 refpond with the former ; but I am not fo well fatisfied about 

 the next defcribed, though it in foine meafure bears a refem- 

 blance. 



4.- Alcedo rudis, Lin. Syftil. p. 181. N° 12. 



BLACK AND L e Martin pefcheur blanc & noir, Brif. orn. iv. p. 520. N°24. t. 39. f. 2. 



rr Le Martin pecheur pie, Buf. olf. vii. p. 185. 



Martin pecheur huppe du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PL enl. 716. 



Black and white Kingsfifher, Ediu. i. pi. 9. 



Description. ENGTH eleven inches.. The bill black, and near three 



inches long : the head and hind part of the neck covered 

 with black feathers, edged with. white on each fide, fo as to form 

 longiih lines of this lafl colour : on each fide of the head is a 

 ftripe of white, beginning at the bafe of the upper mandible, and 

 paffing over the eye towards the neck : the back, wings, and 

 upper parts of the body,. are fpotted irregularly with black and 

 white : the breaft and fides the fame, but the. black fpots lefs : 



throat, 



