K I N G S F I S H E R. 619 



Inhabits Senegal; found alfo about Yemen, in Arabia, by Forfckal, Places. 



who minutely describes it. 



9- 

 Var.B. 



T ENGTH above nine inches. Bill ftrait; an inch and 3 half Description. 



long, and red : irides hazel : head and neck dufky white : 



wings black, with a bar of blue acrofs the middle : the breaft and 



belly are ferruginous: fomeofthe feathers of the former have 



yellowifh margins : the infide of the wings is firft ferruginous, 



then whitifh, and afterwards dufky : the upper part of phe tail is 



blue, the under dufky : legs red. 



This is a Variety of the former, and is found at St. Jago ) Place" and 

 particularly in a fmall iflet in the harbour, called Quail 1/land, Manners. 

 It feeds on large land Crabs of a blue colour, whofe numerous 

 habitations are round and deep holes in the dry parched foil. 



This is found alfo in AbyJJinia, as appears from a drawing of Place. 



James Bruce, Efq. * 



Le Martin-pecheur bleu & noir du Senegal, Buf. oif, vii. p. 194. 9. 



Martin-pecheur du Senegal, PI. enl. 356. 1. var. C. 



'"T^HIS is a trifle bigger than the common Kingsfifher : length Description. 



feven inches. The bill is rufous : the upper part of the 

 head and neck deep blue : the back, the fecondary quills, and 

 tail, deep blue: wing coverts and greater quills black : the 

 throat is white, with a blueifh tinge: the reft of the under parts 

 rufous yellow : the legs reddifh. 



Inhabits Senegal. Place. 



* Ferfl. Voj. i. p. 40. 



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