KINGSFISHER. 



Le Martin-pecheur a collier blanc des Philippines, Son. Voy. p. 67. t. 33. !2 , 



— Buf. oif. vii. p. 193. Var.. D. 



/ "TpHIS is no doubt a further Variety. Sonnerat fays, it is lefs Description. 



"*" than a Blackbird : the bill black ; the lower mandible yel- 

 lowifh at the bafe : head, back, wings, and tail, blue tinged with 

 green : the under parts of the body white, extending round the 

 middle of the neck like a collar : legs bkckifh. 

 Inhabits the Philippine IJlands. 



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Lev. Mitf.- 



Puace. 



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VENERATED 

 K. 



j ENGTH nine inches. Bill an inch and three quarters long, Descripxioi 



much depreffed, and of a black colour ; but the bafe, for 

 above half an inch, of the under mandible is white : the upper 

 parts of the body are light brown ; in fome parts mixed with 

 greeniih feathers, in others tinged only with gloffy green : from 

 the eye to the hind head, this laft colour is very confpicuous, 

 forming a kind of wreath round the back part of the head, at 

 which place it inclines to white : the wing, coverts are brown, 

 many of them margined with green : the fecondaries are alfo 

 brown with green margins, and many of them as long- as the 

 greater quills, which are only edged with green for about half 

 their length : the under parts of the body are very pale : the tail 

 is not quite four inches in length, rounded at the ends, and co- 

 loured as the quills : the fliafts of both quills and tail are cheftnut : 

 legs duiky. 



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