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KINGFISHER. 



Class II. 



GENUS X. KINGFISHER. 



Bill straight, strong, triangular, sharp pointed. 

 Tongue short and pointed. 

 Toes, three lowest joints of the outmost connect- 

 ed to the middle toe. 



1. Common. AlcedoIspida.A.brachyura, sub- 

 cristata coerulea, subtiia rufa, 

 loris fulvis, vertice nigro un- 

 duiato, macula aurium gula- 

 que albis. Lath. hid. ortu 2b2- 

 id. Syn. ii. 626. id. Sup. i. 

 115. 



Le Martinet pescheur. Belon av, 

 218. 



Ispida (Isfogel). Gesnerav. 571. 



Aldr. av. iii. 200. 



Olina 39, 40. 



fVil. em. 146. 



Raii Syn. av, 48. 



Alcedo Ispida. Gm. Lin. 448. 



Le Martin-pecheur. Brisson 

 av, iv. 47 1. Hist, d'ois. vii. 

 164. PL E Hi. 77. 



Piombino, Martino pescatore, 

 Pescatore del re. Zinan 11 6. 



Isfogel. Mus. Fr. ad. l6, ScO' 

 poll. No. 64. 



Jis-fugl. Brutmich in Ap- 

 pend. 



Eisvogel. Frisch, ii. 223. 



Meerschwalbe. Kram. 337. 



Br. Zool 82. plate I. Arct. 

 Zool. i. 328. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



X HIS bird weighs an ounce and a quarter : its 

 length is seven inches ; its breadth eleven. Its 

 shape is very clumsy, the head and bill being 

 very large, and the legs disproportionably small ; 

 the bill is two inches long ; the upper mandible 

 black, the lower yellow : the irides are red. The 

 colors of this bird atone for its inelegant form. 



