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edge green, the inner orange : the IefTer the fame, but the inner 

 margins brown : tail brown ; the two middle feathers, and the 

 outer edges of the others, blue green : legs and claws reddifh. 



Inhabits Senegal, from whence it was fent by M. Adanfott. 



This is clearly a variety of our Kingsfifoer* 



Plac; 



Alcedo erithaca, Lin. Syjt.i. p, 179. N a 4. 



Le Martin-pefcheur a. collier de Bengale, Brif. orn. iv. p. 503. N° ijv 



Le Martin-pecheur a front jaune, Buf. oif. vii. p. 195. 



Bengal Kingfifher, Alb. iii. pi. 29. 



CIZE of our Kingfifher : length fix inches and a quarter. Bill 

 above an inch and a half long, and red : the upper part of the 

 head is of a dull red : on the forehead is a yellow fpot : on each 

 fide of the head is a ftreak of black, which begins at the bafe of 

 the bill and pafTes through the eye; behind which is another band 

 of deep blue : the hind part of the neck is encircled with a band 

 of white, forming a kind of collar : from this to the rump the 

 plumage is of a deep blue: the rump itfelf, the upper tail co- 

 verts, and tail, dull red : the throat is white : the fides of the 

 head, under the eyes, and all the under parts, are fine yellow : 

 the upper wing coverts are light afh-colour : quills the fame 1 

 the legs and claws of a bright red. 

 Inhabits the kingdom of Bengal, 



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RED-HEADED> 

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Descp.iptio.k-. 



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Red-headed Kingsfifher, Gen. of Birds, p. 61. pi. 5. 



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Var. A. 



T? ATHER fmaller than the common Kingsfijher. Bill red; near Description, 



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the bafe of the upper mandible a white fpot : head and back 



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