KINGS-FISHER:. Gt$ 



upwards, and fomewhat oblique ; the_ under one is round : the 

 legs are blackifh. 

 "This inhabits New Guinea*- Elace. 



Alcedo Smyrnenfis, Lin. SyJ}. i. p. 181. N° II.— Scop. ann. i. p. 55. 7. 



N°65. 

 Le Martin pecheur de Smyrne, Brif. orn. iv. p. 499. N° 1 3. 

 Smyrna Kingsfiflier, Albin, iii. pi. 37. 



SMYRNA: 

 K. 



T ENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill more than two inches Description* 



in length, and red : irides whitifh : the head, neck, breaft, 

 belly, fides, thighs, under wing and tail coverts, of an elegant 

 cheflnut : the throat is white : on the breaft is a tranfverfe band 

 of the fame, about half an inch in breadth : the lefler wing co- 

 verts, and thofe next the body, dull green : the greater coverts, 

 fartheft from the body, of the fame colour on the outfide and 

 tips, but blackifh within: the quills the fame: the tail feathers 

 are blackifh ; but the two middle ones are wholly of a dull 

 green, and the outer edges of the reft of the fame colour; but all 

 of them are blackifh on the under fide : the legs are red: the 

 claws blackifh. 



Inhabits the environs of Smyrna,. . ' PtAcsi. 



Alced©i: 



