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-verts blue green ; each feather tipped with bright blue : quills 

 and tail brown, edged with blue green: legs dull red. 



21. Le petit Martin-pefcheur de Bengale, Brif. cm. iv. p. 477. N° 3. 



* AR " "■' Little Indian Kingfiftier, Ed<w. i. pi. n. upper figure. 



■Description. /-pH-IS is rather lefs than the other, and differs very little. In- 

 ftead of the rufous ftreak through the eye, it has two fpots, 

 the one at the bafe of the upper mandible, and the other behind 

 each ear : and the quills and tail brown throughout. 

 Place. Thefe both came from Bengali and it is mofh probable that 



they are varieties only of each other, or differ in fex. Linndus 

 fuppofes them to be varieties of the common Kingsfijher ; but in 

 my opinion they feem rather more like the following. 



22. Alcedo criftata, Lin. Syjt.l. p. 178. N° 1. 



CRESTED Le Martin-pefcheur hupe des Philippines, Brif. em. iv. p. 483. N° 6. 



P 1 - 37- f - 3- 

 Le Vintfi, Buf. oif. vii. p. 205. 



Le petit Martin-pecheur huppe des Philippines, PI. enl. 756. f. 1. 



Discretion,. ENGTH near five inches. Bill almoft an inch and a half 



long, and black : the feathers on the crown are longifh, and 

 form a creft: ; thefe are greenifh, tranfverfely barred with black : 

 on each fide the neck is a fine blue ftripe, beginning at the eye, 

 and paffing a little way down the neck : the back, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts, bright blue : fcapulars violet : the cheeks are- 

 rufous, which colour paffes down on each fide of the neck : the 

 throat rufous white : the fore part of the neck, and under parts of 

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