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from the outward part of many of the quills being of that colour, 

 from the base to the middle; the bastard wing is also half black, half 

 blue ; under wing coverts white; the inner webs of the quills white 

 half way from the base ; tail blue, rather deeper than the rest, dusky 

 beneath ; shape a little rounded, the outmost feather being about 

 half an inch shorter than the two middle ones ; all the under parts 

 from breast to vent, dusky bluish white; legs crimson. 



Inhabits Sierra Leone. — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. 



13— DUN KINGSFISHER. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill two inches, colour yel- 

 lowish, more inclined to that of box ; head, neck, beginning of the 

 back, and beneath the body, pale brown, or dirty rufous, nearly white 

 on the chin ; and on the back and belly rufous brown ; the feathers 

 of the crown elongated, but scarcely to be called crested ; wings and 

 tail pale blue green ; legs pale, almost white. 



Inhabits Africa, and seems somewhat allied to the Senegal Spe- 

 cies, but has a longer tail, and the wings reach only to the base. — 

 Mr. Woodford. 



14— MENINGTING KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Meningting, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 177. 



LENGTH five inches and a quarter. Plumage above dusky 

 black ; middle of the back sea-green ; rump blue ; beneath bay ; 

 throat, and a spot on the neck on both sides, white ; a dusky white 

 streak between the bill and eyes ; and the scapulars marked with 

 some spots of blue. 



Inhabits Java, called there Meningting. 



