16 KINGSFISHER. 



narrowest on the more outward feathers; besides which, the two 

 outmost have two semicircular black marks, one on each side, near 

 the margin ; legs black. 



Inhabits Asia and Africa. That described by Mr. Edwards, said 

 to come from Persia ; found also about the banks of the Nile,* and 

 near Damanhour in Egypt, f I have likewise seen a specimen from 

 China. 



A. — Marti n-pecheur du Cap de bonne Esperance, PL enl. 716. 



This is similar to the above, but smaller, being only eight inches 

 in length. Bill black ; top of the head black ; back black, clouded 

 with white; the other parts of the body mixed black and white, not 

 unlike the first, but on the whole has a greater mixture of black in 

 the plumage, and the head feathers elongated at the nape ; across 

 the breast a bar of black ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope ; is found also in India, where 

 it is called Wasterman-Sokalie ouadroj 



B. — Length twelve inches. Bill two inches and a half long, 

 black, less stout than in the Black and White species ; the ridge of 

 the upper mandible nearly strait ; the under inclining upwards in a 

 small degree; head crested at the back, crown black, with a few 

 whitish streaks ; from the nostrils a broad white streak, passing over 

 the eyes to the hindhead ; through the eye a broad one of black, 

 marked as the nape, the neck otherwise white, also the rest of the 

 under parts to the vent, but from the black streak on each side of 

 the head a narrow one of the same descends to the breast, on which 

 it forms a broad black band ; back and wings black and white in 



* Hastelquist. f Sonnini's Trav. ii. p. 55. 121. J Lady dive's drawings. 



