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spots ; wing coverts white, with large round spots of black, and the 

 same on the rump ; tail white, with one bar of black, an inch broad, 

 near the end ; legs black. 



This beautiful bird inhabits India. I observe in Gen. Hardwicke's 

 drawings, that the wings are about half way on the tail ; but in a 

 specimen in my possession, they reach almost to the end of it. 



8— EGYPTIAN KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo jEgyptia, Ind. Om. i. 247. Gm. LinA. 457. Hasselq. It. 245. 23. 

 Egyptian Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn.W. 613. Skaiv's Zool. viii. p. 61. 



SIZE of the Royston Crow. Bill blackish, two inches long, and 

 more than half an inch broad at the base ; the head, shoulders, and 

 back brown, marked with oblong ferruginous spots ; sides the same, 

 with lucid spots of the same colour, broadest at the tips of the 

 feathers ; throat ferruginous white ; belly and thighs whitish, marked 

 with longitudinal, broadish, ferruginous spots; upper tail coverts 

 quite white ; quills spotted with white on the inner webs, chiefly at 

 the tips ; tail even at the end, inclining to ash-colour ; legs pale 

 green. 



Inhabits Lower Egypt, about Cairo ; builds in sycamore and 

 date trees, and feeds on frogs, insects, and small fish, which last it 

 meets with in the fields, when they are overflowed : its cry is not 

 unlike that of the Common Crow. 



9— NEW-GUINEA KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo novae Guineas, Ind. Om. i. 247. Gm. Lin. i. 456. 

 Martin-pescheur de la nouvelle Guinee, Son. Foy. 171. t. 107. 

 New-Guinea Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 614. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 62. 



SIZE of the Black and White Species. Bill and irides blackish ; 

 the whole plumage black, spotted, or marked with white irregularly; 



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