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ORD. II. GENUS X. KINGFISHER. 
Brit, long, ftrong, ftraight, fharp pointed. 
Nostrixs, fmall, and hidden in the feathers. 
Toncus, fhort, broad, fharp pointed. 
Lees, fhort. 
Toss, three forwards, one backwards: three lower joints of the middle toe 
joined to thofe of the outmoft. 
SPECIES I. KINGFISHER. 
FL.$%- 
Alcedo ifpida. Lin. Syf. I. p. 179. 
Le martin-pécheur. Brif. Orn. IV. p. 471. 
This well-known and beautiful bird is feven inches in length, and eleven in 
breadth. The bill is black, except the bafe of the lower mandible, which is 
orange colour: eyes red: the top and fides of the head, and wing coverts, are 
of a dark green, marked with tranfverfe {pots of a very bright fhining blue, the 
green changing in fome lights to deep blue: a broad patch.of orange colour 
paffes from the bill beyond the eyes, and at the end of this is a white fpot: chin 
white: the reft of the under parts of the body of a fine orange: tail blue: legs 
red. 
The kingfifher makes no neft, but lays its eggs, ufually feven or more, ina 
hole in the bank of the river or ftream which it frequents. Its food is fifh. 
For the egg fee Pl. XII. Fig. 2. 

