S:H TC1NGSFISHER. 



'fpots of a ferruginous colour, which are broadeft at the tip 

 of the feathers : the throat ferruginous white: belly and thighs 

 whitifh, marked with longitudinal broadifh cinereous fpots : 

 upper tail coverts quite white : quills fpotted with white on the 

 inner webs, chiefly at the tips : .tail even at the end, and inclining 

 to afh-colour : legs pale green : claws blackifh. 

 IPlace. Inhabits lower Egypt, about Cairo ■, builds in fycamore and date 



irees; and feeds on frogs, infefts, and fmall jfyft, which laft it meets 

 with in the fields when they are overflowed. Its cry is not unlike 

 that of the common Crow. 



Linnaus has fet -this down with the fynonyms of his Alcedo 

 rudis, our laft fpecies; but, as it feems to differ both in fize and 

 colour, I have fome fufpicion about it, and have therefore given 

 Hajfdquifi's, defcription of the bird, that the reader may form his 

 own judgment. 



6. Le Martin pecheur de la Nouvelle Guinee, Son. Voy. p. 171. t. 107. 



NEW GUINEA 



JDesc.p.iptjqn. '-jt^HIS is defcribed as equalling the others in fize. The bill 

 A and irides blackifh : the whole of the plumage black, 

 fpotted or marked with white; the fpots of an irregular form: 

 the head, back, and wing coverts, are marked with fmall round 

 fpots : quills and tail the fame ; but the fpots are of twice the 

 fize : the neck and belly are marked with longitudinal white 

 fpots, each feather having a ftripe down the middle : on each fide 

 of the neck are two large white fpots, the one above the other, 

 the fpace between which is narrow, and fpotted like the reft of 

 the neck ; the upper one is in the fhape of a pear, with the point 

 2 upwards, 



