Places. 



K I N G S F I S 



ruginous, fpotted tranfverfely with white 

 fame manner : legs and claws black. 



Inhabits Guiana and Braftl, where it feeds on fifh 



HER. 



the tail marked in the 



28. 



BRASILIAN 



SPOTTED 



K. 



Description. 



Place, 



Le Martin-pefcheur tachete du-Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 524. N° 25. 



Le Matuiti, Buf. oif. vii. p. 212. 



Matuiti, Raii Sjn. p. 165. N° 3. — Will. orn. p. 199. t. 38. fig. had. 



'THIS fpecies is about the fize of a Starling. The bill is red : 

 the upper mandible a trifle longer than the under, and fome- 

 what bent at the point :, the upper parts of the body are brown, 

 fpotted with pale yellow: quills and tail brown, marked with 

 tranfverfe pale yellow fpots : the throat is yellow : the under 

 parts of the body white, marked with fmall fpots of brown : legs 

 and claws dull alh. 

 Inhabits Brqfil. 



29. 



RUFOUS -AND 



GREEN 



K. 



Description. 



Le Martin-pecheur vert & roux, Buf, oif. vii. p. 21;. 



— de Cayenne, PI. enl. 592. 

 f. 2. the female. 



f. 1. the male. 



1IZE of our common Kingsfifher : in length eight inches. The 

 bill is black, and two inches in length : the upper parts of 

 the body are of a deep green, marked here and there on the 

 wings with fmall' whitifh fpots, but not numerous : from the nof- 

 trils to the upper part of the eye a rufous ftripe: the under parts 

 of the body are of a deep gilded rufous colour, pafling behind as 

 a collar round the lower part of the neck : there is alfo a band 

 of black and white, mixed in waves, on the breafl: : the tail 



marked 



