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20— WHITE COLLARED KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo caerulea, Ind. Orn. i. 250. Gm. Lin. i. 454. 

 Ispida Iodica torquata, Bris. iv. 481. t. 37. 2. A. Id. 8vo. ii. 179. 

 White-collared Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 620. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 94. Nat. Misc. 

 pi. 269. 



THIS is larger than our Common Kingsfisher; length six inches 

 and three quarters. Bill nearly one inch and three quarters long ; 

 grey at the base, and blackish towards the tip. The plumage fine 

 blue above, and rufous beneath; on the throat very pale; above the 

 eye, from the base of the bill, a white line, and another round the 

 neck like a collar ; under the eye a rufous spot ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts fine green ; legs grey. 



Inhabits the East Indies. 



21— SACRED KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo sacra, Ind. Orn. i. 250. Gm. Lin. i. 453. 



Sacred Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 621. Shaio's Zool. viii. p. 78. 



THIS is bigger and stouter than the Common Kingsfisher ; length 

 nine inches and a half. The bill strong, depressed, one inch and 

 three quarters long, and lead -coloured, but the under part of it is 

 white; the head and below the eye on each side, as well as the upper 

 parts of the body, light blue green, darkest about the ears; over the 

 eye a pale ferruginous stripe, beginning at the nostrils, and meeting 

 at the back part of the head; under the blue, beneath the eye, a 

 narrow orange ferruginous stripe, and beneath that, on the nape, a 

 band of blue; quills and tail blackish, the outer edges blue, ap- 

 pearing when closed wholly blue ; all the under parts are white, with 

 a tinge of buff-colour round the neck like a collar ; legs black. 



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