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2.— NEW-HOLLAND KINGSFISHER. 



SIZE of the Great Brown Species. Bill the same in size ; colour 

 brown, the under mandible pale ; head, neck, and breast, pale ash- 

 colour, streaked across with dusky lines ; chin white ; head furnished 

 with a crest, consisting of elongated narrow feathers, streaked with 

 brown ; shoulders dusky black ; lower part of the back and rump 

 tine glossy verditer blue ; wing coverts mixed with the same ; quills 

 black, edged with deep blue ; tail deep dirty greenish blue, irregu- 

 larly marked at the end with white ; legs brown. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — In the Museum of the Linnaean Society. 

 This seems to have great affinity with the former, yet differs in many 

 points, as may be seen, by comparing them together. We will not 

 however be positive of being distinct as a species. 



3. -CAPE KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Capensis, Ind. Orn. i. 246. Lin. i. 180. Gm. Lin; i. 455. 

 Ispida Capitis Bonse Spei, Bris. iv. 488. t. 36. 3. Id. 8vo. ii. 181. 

 Martin-pecheur du Cap. de B. Esp. a gros bee, Buf. vii. 184. PI. enl. 590. 

 Cape Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 610. Id. Sup. 114. Shmv's Zool. viii. p. 65. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill large, above one inch thick at 



the base, and three inches and a half in length, colour red with a 



blackish tip ; top of the head ash-colour, verging to fulvous ; upper 



part of the body blue green, inclining to ash; the lower part of the 



back, rump, and upper tail coverts glossy blue green ; greater quills 



blue green on the outside, the inner webs ash-colour ; shafts of the 



wings, and tail feathers black above, and whitish beneath ; under 



parts of the body fulvous ; chin white; legs red. 



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