18 KINGSFISHER. 



on the head, back, and wing coverts, the spots are small and round; 

 quills the same, but the spots of twice the size ; the neck and belly 

 have longitudinal ones, the feathers being, as it were, striped down 

 the middle ; on each side of the neck are two large spots, one above 

 the other, the space between them narrow, and spotted like the rest of 

 the neck ; the upper one is in the shape of a pear, with the point 

 upwards, and somewhat oblique, the under one round ; legs blackish. 

 Inhabits New-Guinea. 



10— SMYRNA KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Smyrnensis, Ind.Orn.i. 247. Lin. i. 181. Gm, Lin.i. 456. Scop. Ann. \. No. 



65. Bor. Nat. ii. 145. 

 Ispida Smyrnensis, Bris. iv. 499. Id. 8vo. ii. 184. 

 Smyrna Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 615. Alb. iii. pi. 37. Shaic's Zool. viii. p. 68. Nat. 



Misc. pi. 821. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill two inches long, dull 

 red ; irides whitish ; head, neck, breast, belly, sides, thighs, under 

 wing and tail coverts, elegant chestnut ; throat white ; on the breast 

 a transverse band of the same, about half an inch in breadth ; lesser 

 wing coverts, and those next the body, dull green; the greater 

 farthest from the body, the same, but within blackish; quills the 

 same ; the tail consists of twelve feathers, the two middle ones are 

 dull green, and the outer edges of the others the same ; within and 

 beneath all of them are blackish ; legs red. 



Inhabits the neighbourhood of Smyrna. 



