K I N G S F I S H E R. 621 



L ™- M «S' SACRED 



K. 



'T^HIS fpecies feems bigger than the common Kingsfijher : Description. 



the length is nine inches and a half. The bill is ftrong, de- 

 preffed, an inch and three quarters long, and of a lead- 

 colour ; but the under part of the lower mandible is white : 

 the head and below the eye, on each fide, as well as the 

 upper parts of the body, are of a light blue green, darkeft 

 about the ears : over the eye is a ftripe of pale ferruginous, 

 beginning at the noftrils, and meeting at the back part of the 

 head : under the blue beneath the eye, a narrow orange fer- 

 ruginous ftripe i and beneath that, on the nape, is a blue band : 

 quills and tail blackifh ; the outer edges blue, and when clofed 

 appear wholly blue : all the under parts are white, with a tinge of 

 buff-colour paffing round the neck as a collar: the legs are black. 



This, and its Varieties, inhabit Otaheite, and the other Piace. 



Society JJlands in the South Seas. 



12. 



Vax. A. 



*~pHE firft Variety has a white band over the eye to the Description. 



hind head, inftead of ferruginous : beneath this band, at 

 the nape, is one of black, which in the other is blue : the 

 fcapulars alfo are much more inclined to green, and darker 

 than in the former bird ; and the white on the neck, and the 

 fides of the breaft, has each feather fringed with afh-colour : 

 the knees of both are black a very little way up on the out- 

 fide. I obferved in one of thefe a (lender black line, which 

 divided the white collar on the neck, exactly in the middle. 



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