KINGSFISHER, 



*37 



Alcedo alcyon, Lin. Syft. j. p. 180. N° 7. 



Le Martin-pefcheur hupe de la Caroline, Brif. cm. iv. p. 512. N°2j, 



Le Jaguacati, Buf. oif. vii. p. 210. 



Kingfifher, Catejby Car. i. pi. 69. 



Belted Kingfilher, Am. ZaoL N°. 



Lev. Muf. 



OIZE of a Blackbird : length ten inches and a half. The bill is 

 two inches and a half long, and black : the head crefted : ge- 

 neral colour of the plumage blueifh afh above, and white be- 

 neath : on each fide the head are two white fpots, one between 

 the bill and eye, and another beneath the eye : round the neck is 

 a collar of white ; under this, on the fore part, the neck is blue- 

 ifh afh : on the breaft is a tranfverfe cheftnut band, three quar- 

 ters of an inch in breadth : the greater wing coverts and fecond 

 quills have white tips : the prime quills black, with tranfverfe 

 fpots of white on the inner webs, and tipped with white : the tail 

 tipped with white : legs and claws brown. 



Inhabits Carolina, where it feeds on lizards and fifh. 



27. 



BELTEI> 



K. 



Descriptiow, 



Place* 



Martin-pecheur de la Louifiane, PL ent. 715. 

 Crabcalcher, Sloan. Jam. ii. p. 313. N° 54. t. 

 Lev. Muf.. 



55- 



27. 



■(-Var. A. 



r ENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill two inches and three 



quarters,, and of a very dark brown : irides red : the head 



deep lead-colour, and crefted, each feather being very dark down 



the middle : between the upper mandible and eye a fpot of white : 



the chin and fore part of the neck halfway down white, and this. 



extends: 



De 



SCJUPTIONV 



