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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. Alcedo Ispida. A. bracbyura, sub- 

 eristata coerulea, subtus rufa, 

 loris fulvis, vertice nigro un- 

 dulate, macula aurium gula- 

 que albis. Lath. Ind. orn. 252. 

 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. 



Wil. ern. 146. 



Rati Syn. av. 48. 



Alcedo Ispida. Gm. Lin, 448. 



Le Martin-pecheur. Brisson 

 av. iv. 471. Hist, d'ois. vii. 

 164. Fl. Enl. 77- 



Piombino, Martino pescatore, 

 Pescatore del re. Zinan 1 16. 



Isfogel. Mus. Fr. ad. 16. Sco- 

 poli. No. 64, 



Jis-fugl. Brunnich in Ap- 

 pend. 



Eisvogel. Frischy ii. 223. 



Meerschwalbe. Kram. 337- 



Br. Zool 82. plate I, Arct, 

 Zool, i. 328. 



D tion IF " ■*- HIS D * r( * we ig ns 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. 



