24 KINGSFISHER. 



length, and tips black; tail black, the upper surface of the two 

 middle feathers, and outer edges of all the others, blue green ; legs 

 black. 



Inhabits Senegal, fonnd also about Yemen, in Arabia, by Forskal, 

 who minutely describes it, I observed in one, said to come from 

 Sierra Leone, that the black space between the bill and eye, is larger, 

 and quite surrounds the latter. 



A.— Alcedo submacroura, capite colloque albis, &c. Ind. Orn. i. 249. Gen. Syn. i'u 

 619. 9. B. 



Length above nine inches. Bill strait, an inch and a half 

 long, red; irides hazel; head and neck dusky white; wings black, 

 with a bar of blue across the middle; breast and belly ferruginous ; 

 some of the feathers of the former with yellowish margins ; the inside 

 of the wings is first ferruginous, then whitish, and afterwards dusky; 

 tail blue above, dusky beneath ; legs red. 



Inhabits St. Jago, particularly a small islet in the harbour, called 

 Quail Island ; feeds on the blue land crabs, whose numerous 

 habitations are round and deep holes in the dry parched soil ; found 

 also in Abyssinia, as I learned from the drawings of Mr. Bruce. 



B. — Martin-pecheur bleu et noir du Senegal, Buf. vii. 194. PI. enl. 356, lower figure. 

 Gen. Syn. ii. 619. 9. C. 



This is rather larger than the Common Kingsfisher ; length 

 eight inches. Bill rufous ; upper part of the head and neck bluish 

 white ; back, second quills, and tail deep blue; wing coverts and 

 greater quills black ; the upper parts rufous yellow ; legs reddish. 



Inhabits Senegal. 



