6zo 



KINGSFISHER. 



10. 



WHITE-! 

 COLLARED 

 K. 



Description. 



Le .Martin-pecheur a collier des Indes, Brif. orn. 

 t. 37. f. 2. A. 



iv. p. 481. N« 5, 



npHIS exceeds our. Kingsfifher much in fize, and is in length 





Place. 



fix inches and three quarters. The bill is almoft an inch 

 and three quarters long, grey at the bafe, and blackifh towards 

 the tip : the plumage above is of a fine blue; beneath rufous '; 

 on the throat very pale : above the eye, from the bafe of the bill, 

 pafifes a white line, and another round the neck like a collar : 

 under the eye is a fpot of rufous : the rump and upper tail coverts, 

 are of a fine green : the legs are grey; and the claws blackifh. 

 Inhabits the Eaft Indies, 



11. 



GREEN- 

 HEADED 

 K. 



Le Martin-pecheur a tece verte, Bnf. oif. vii. p. 190. 

 Martin-pecheur a tete verte du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PL enl. 785. 



Description. T ENGTH nine inches. The bill blackifh : the head is green, 

 furrounded by a ftreak of black, giving the bird the appear- 

 ance of wearing a green hood : the back is of the fame colour, 

 which changes on the wings and tail to blue green: the throat 

 and neck are white: under the tail, and the legs, blackifh. This is 

 the whole of the above author's defcription. I obferve that all 

 the under parts of the body are white in the PL enl. : the feathers 

 which fall over the thighs yellowifh : and the quills dufky black. 

 Flace. This bird inhabits Bouro, one of the Molucca IJlands. 



Lev. 



