KINGSFISHER, 15 



6— BEAUTIFUL KINGSFISHER. 



Daeelo pulchella, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 175. 



LENGTH eight inches. General colour of the plumage above 

 fasciated with sea-green, black and white; the head brown bay; 

 crown azure ; chin and throat whitish ; belly pale ferruginous. 



Inhabits Java, and is a most beautiful species : native name 

 Tenke-watu. We have met with one, which nearly answers to the 

 above description. This had the top of the head black, wings black ; 

 quills and tail very fine blue ; chin white ; belly and under wing 

 coverts fine ferruginous. Bill and legs red.- — Said also to inhabit 

 Java. 



7— BLACK AND WHITE KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo rudis, Ind. Orn. i. 247. Lin. i. 181. Gm. Lin. i. 457. Hasselq. It. p. 243. Id. 



Engl. 197. 

 Ispida ex albo & nigro varia, Bris. iv. 520. t. 39. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 190. Klein 36. 8. 

 Le Martin-pecheur pie, Buf. vii. 185. PL enl. 62. 

 Pied Kingfisher, Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 63. pi. 7. 

 Black and White Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn ii. 612. Edw. pi. 9. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill near three inches long, and black; 

 head and hind part of the neck black, the feathers edged with white 

 on each side, so as to form longish lines of this last colour; on each 

 side of the head a stripe of white, from the base of the upper mandible, 

 passing over the eye towards the neck ; back, wings, and upper 

 parts of the body, spotted irregularly with black and white ; breast 

 and sides the same; but the black spots are less; throat and under 

 parts wholly white; quills spotted white and black; the tips of the 

 greater black ; tail white, with a black band near the end, which is. 



