12 KINGSFISHER. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. — A specimen in the Leverian 

 Museum had a streak of brown behind the eye ; the crown brown, 

 mixed with darker brown ; and several of the prime quills black for 

 a good way from the end ; but in other things answering to the above 

 description. 



One greatly similar, in some Chinese drawings, which came 

 under my inspection, had the name of Tye-tzoy. I have also seen 

 representations of it, in three different collections of drawings done 

 in India. Found also in Ceylon. 



A specimen of one of these, sixteen inches in length, in Mr. 

 Bullock's Museum. 



4— GURIAL KINGSFISHER. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill three inches and seven-tenths 

 long, very strong, and red, with a brown point ; eyelids scarlet ; 

 irides brown ; head, cheeks, and nape brown, and the feathers on 

 both sides turned up to a longitudinal ridge in the centre, from 

 whence they hang down the neck in a kind of crest ; chin white ; 

 neck, breast, belly, thighs, sides under the wings, and tail coverts 

 tawny yellow ; the feathers of the breast margined with brown ; the 

 rest of the plumage more or less blue ; quills black, the outer 

 edges blue, except at the tips ; tail rounded at the end, four inches 

 long, consisting of ten feathers, colour green, varying to blue; 

 legs red. 



Inhabits India, and is the Maas Runga and Maas Gurial of the 

 Bengalese, which two words are generic ; the first universal, and 

 signifies fond of fish; the last confined to the larger species of Alcedo, 

 and means, that they are as desirous of fish as Alligators. Found in 

 the neighbourhood of Calcutta all the year, building the nest in 

 mud-walls. I am assured by Dr. Buchanan, that the above is 

 distinct, otherwise we might have supposed it to be a Variety of 



