KINGSFISHER. 23 



This has been thought by M. Buffon to vary but little from the 

 last, but it is much inferior in size, and the head is expressly said to 

 be green. 



18.— CRAB-EATING KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo cancrophaga, Ind. Orn. i. 249. 



Martin-pescheur, appelle Crabier, Buf. vii. 183. Pl.enl. 334. 



Crab-eating Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 618. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 71. pi. 8. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill deep ferruginous ; upper part of 

 the body and tail fine blue green ; the outer edges of the quills the 

 same, with black tips; on the wing coverts a large bed of black; 

 behind each eye a streak of the same ; the under part of the body 

 pale fulvous yellow ; legs ferruginous. 



Inhabits Senegal, and called there Crabier; feeds on a small species 

 of Land Crab found in the woods, and rarely or never frequents the 

 water. 



19— SENEGAL KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Senegalensis, Ind. Orn. i. 249. Lin. i. 180. Gm. Lin. i. 455. 

 Alcedo-semiccerulea, Forsk. Faun. Arab. p. 2. 5. Gm. Lin. i. 455. 

 Grand M. pescheur du Senegal, Bris. iv. 494. t.40. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 182. 

 Martin-pescheur a tete grise, Buf. vii. 194. PL enl. 594. 

 Senegal Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 618. 9. A. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 72. pi. 9. 



SIZE of a Starling ; length nine inches. Bill two inches long; 

 the upper mandible red, the lower black ; head, throat, and neck, 

 light grey, deeper on the head; between the bill and eye a black 

 mark, reaching to the eye; back and scapulars blue; lesser wing- 

 coverts, and some of the greater ones nearest the body, black ; the 

 greater black, with the outer edges blue ; quills white within at the 

 base, the outer margins blue green ; the rest of them for their whole 



