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part of the neck orange red : from each eye, towards the hack, 

 extends a purple line, terminating in a white fpot ; and on the 

 inner fide of that, one of black : chin white ; upper part of the 

 back a rich blue j the lower, light purple: wing coverts black, 

 edged with blue: primaries black.: bread and belly yellowifh. 

 white : back orange : legs red. 



Inhabits India, and feems to be a variety of the laft defcribed ; 

 it likewife bears fome refemblance to the.pirpk Kingsfijher, or nex£ 

 fpecies, 



PURPLE 

 K. 



TDescriptioi; 



Place.. 



"Le Martin-pecheur pourpre, Buf. oif. vii. p. 199. 

 . . . de Pondichery, PI. enl. 778. f. 2. 



HTHIS moft beautiful fpecies is about the fize of the laft. The 

 bill red: the head, the rump, and the tail, are of a golden rufous 

 colour, with a tinge of blue and purple : back and wing coverts 

 of a rich blue black : quills black : behind the eye is a ftreak of 

 light purple, which finifhes at the back part with a bright blue: 

 the throat is white : the under parts of the body of a gilded rufous 

 white : the legs red. 



Inhabits the Eaft Indies.' The fpecimen, from whence this de- 

 fcription was taken, came from Pondicherry. 



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RUFOUS 



K. 



Alcedo Madagafcarienfis, Lin. Sjft.i. p. 179. N° 5. 



Le Martin-pecheur de Madagafcar, Brif. orn. iv. p. 508. N° 18. .pi. 38. f. I. 



_ , , PI. enl. 778. f. 1. 



Le Martin-pecheur roux 3 Buf. oif. vii. p. 199. 



Description. T ENGTH five inches and a. quarter. Bill fixteen lines long, 

 and red : the plumage on the upper parts of the body rufous : 



throat 



