K I N G S F I S HER. 6t : 



throat, and under parts to the tail, wholly white : quills fpotted 

 white and black ; the tips of the greater ones black : tail white, 

 with a black band near the end, which is narrower!: on the more 

 outward feathers ; befides which, the two outward feathers have 

 two femicircular black marks, one on each fide, near the margin : 

 legs and claws black. 



Inhabits AJia and Africa. Buffon received one from the Cape of Places.. 



Good Hope*, fimilar to the above, but fmaller, being only eight 

 inches in length. The top of the head was black : the back was 

 alfo black, clouded with white : the other parts of the body 

 mixed black and white, not unlike the other, but on the whole 

 had a much greater mixture of black in the plumage. 



Edwards's bird is faid to have come from Perjia; and Briffcn 

 fets down the Grab-catcher of Shane f as fynonymousj but Buffon 

 will not allow of it by any means, reafoning from the impofii- 

 bility of any one fpecies of thefe birds being a native of both^ 

 continents. Whether this be the cafe or not, I am clear that nei- 

 ther Shane's defcription nor figure will by any means afcertain the 

 fact", the one being not fufficiently explicit, and the other moft 

 miferably executed.- 



Alcedd iEgyptia, EaJJelq. Itin, p. 24c. N°'2r. S ; 



* i EGYPTIAN; 



K. 

 HTHIS is the fize of the Royfton Crow. The bill is blackifh, Description* 



more than half an inch broad at the bafe, and two inches in 

 length: the head, moulders, and back, are brown, marked with 

 oblong ferruginous fpots : the fides the fame, marked with lucid 



* PL ml. 6z r ■$ Sloan. Jam. vol. ii, p. 313, t. 255. f. y. 



fpOtS: 



