26 KINGSFISHER. 



Inhabits Otaheite, and the other Society Isles in the South Seas ; 

 at the first it is called Kooto-o-oo* 



A.— Sacred Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 621. 12. A. Ind. Orn.i. 250. 15. /3. 



This variety has a white band over the eye to the hindhead, 

 instead of ferruginous ; beneath this, at the nape, one of black, 

 which is blue in the other ; the scapulars also are more inclined to 

 green, and darker than in the former bird; and the white on the 

 neck, and sides of the breast, has each feather fringed with ash- 

 colour; the knees of both are black, a very little way up on the 

 outside. — In one of these was observed a very slender black line, 

 dividing the white collar on the neck, in the middle. 



B.— Sacred Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii 622. 12 B. pi. 27. Ind. Orn. i. 250. 15. y. 

 Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 174. 



Size of the others. Bill the same ; crown of the head greenish 

 black ; over the eye a ferruginous streak; beneath, and even with the 

 eye, a broad black streak, passing to the hindhead, and surrounding 

 it; chin and throat white ; neck, breast, and belly pale ferruginous, 

 passing round the neck as a collar, and the feathers of the latter 

 margined with dusky ; outside of the thighs blackish ; back and 

 wings like the head ; rump pale bluish green; quills and tail blackish, 

 the feathers margined outwardly with blue ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits Ulietea. — This Variety is also found in Java, and simply 

 called Tengke. 



C— Sacred Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 612. 12. C. Ind. Orn. i. 251. S. White's 

 Journ. pi. in p. 193. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 79. Var. 



In this the crown is blue, the feathers very long, and forming a 

 crest ; the rest of the head black ; throat, and round the neck white ; 



* Cook's last Voyage, Append. 



