20 KINGSFISHER. 



outsides and tips of the prime quills blue green ; the insides and 

 under parts blackish ; legs orange. 



Inhabits Bengal, where it is called Paula Gumma. I have 

 observed one in which the crown, nape, and sides to the under man- 

 dible are black ; otherwise in all respects as in the last described. 



11. -COROMANDEL KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Coromanda, Ind. Orn. i. 252. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 174. 

 Martin-pescheur violet de Coromandel, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 212. pi. 118. 

 Coromandel Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 143. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 75. 



SIZE of a Blackbird. Bill and irides reddish ; the hind part of 

 the neck, back, wings, and tail of a reddish lilac colour, glossed in 

 various lights with violet and sky-blue ;* quills the same, but within 

 of a yellowish rufous colour ; on the rump a perpendicular, broad, 

 bluish-white streak ; throat white, the rest of the under parts light 

 rufous ; legs reddish. 



Inhabits the Coast of Coromandel. — It seems to agree in many 

 respects with the last species ; found also in Java, where it goes by 

 the name of Tengke-sumbo. 



12— BLACK-WINGED KINGSFISHER. 



LENGTH eleven inches and a quarter. Bill very stout, more 

 than two inches long; the upper mandible crimson, the base black, 

 passing obliquely to the middle of the edge ; tip black, the under 

 mandible wholly so ; top of the head cinereous ; through the eye 

 a black streak ; chin and some way on the throat white ; the rest of 

 the neck, back, breast, and tail fine glossy greenish pale blue ; wings 

 black, with an oblique broad band of the same glossy blue, arising 



* Mr. Woodford. 



