XINGSFISH"ER, 



The long tail feathers in the male are faid to be longer than in 

 the female by one-third. 



Inhabits Ternate, one of the Molucca IJles. 



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Pl/.se. 



Le Martin -pefcheur de Cayenne, Brif. om.iv. p. 492. N° 

 Le Taparara, Buf. oif. vii. p. 207. 



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25. 



CAVENNE 

 K. 



^"pHIS is very little lefs than a Starling, and is near nine inches Description. 



and a half in length. The bill is two inches ; the upper 

 mandible black, the lower red : the hind part of the neck, the 

 back, and fcapulars, are of an elegant blue : rump and upper tail 

 coverts bright beryl-blue : beneath the hind head is a tranfverfe 

 band of black : the under parts of the body are white : wing co- 

 verts blue : quills edged with blue : tail the fame; but the two 

 middle feathers wholly blue : the legs red. 



Inhabits Cayenne and Guiana, at which laft place the natives call Places. 



all the Kingsfijher tribe by the name Taparara. In this part of 

 South America, which contains many rivers full of fiih, many 

 Kingsfi/hers in courfe are likely to be found 5 and this is really the 

 cafe, for they abound in vaft numbers ; but what is remarkable, 

 they never herd together, always being found fingle, except in 

 breeding-time, which M. Le Borde, who has obferved them, fays, 

 is about the month of September. They lay their eggs in the 

 holes of banks, like the Kingsfilher of Europe. The cry of this 

 bird imitates the word Carac. 



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