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26. Akedo torquata, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 180. N° 8. 



CINEREOUS Le Martin -pefcheur hupe du Mexique, Brif. orn. iv\ p. 518. N» 23. 



pi. 41. f, 1. — PL enl. 284. 

 L'Alatli, Buf. oif. vii. p. 208. 

 Achalala&li, RaiiSyn. p. 126. — Will. orn. p. 39,0* 



Pssciuption.. ^pHIS is of the fize of a Magpie, and fifteen inches and a half 

 in length. The bill is three quarters of an inch thick at the 

 bafe, and more than three inches and a half long, and brown j the 

 bafe of the lower mandible reddilh : the head is crefted : the 

 irides are whitifh : the upper parts of the head and body are 

 blueifh afhj the under parts cheftnut : the throat is whitifh, de- 

 fending down the neck, and palling behind like a collar, ending 

 towards the back in a point : between the bill and eye is a fpot 

 of white: the thighs are fulvous, mixed with white: the under 

 tail coverts pale fulvous, tranfverfely ffciated with black : lefier 

 wing coverts varied with bLueifh alh, black, and yellowifh, j 

 neareft the body, blueifh alh fpotted with white ; fartheft from 

 the body, blackilh, fpotted white on the outfides and tips : the 

 greater quills are marked in the fame manner, as is the tail : the 

 legs are red : the claws blackifh. 

 PiACESi, Inhabits Martinico and Mexico; at the laft place it is called 



AchalalaEfli. This bird migrates into the northern parts of 

 Mexico at certain feafons only, and is fuppofed to come there from, 

 fome hotter parts.' Buffon thinks it cannot be the bird which M» 

 Adanfon * fays is found in Senegal, fi'r.ce the two parts of the 

 world are fo far afunder ; and the bird itfelf, as well as all of the 

 genus, incapable of long flights. 



* Sappl. de VEncychpedii! au mot Achalc.lafllh 



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