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above half an inch is white; plumage above light brown, in some 

 parts mixed with greenish feathers, in others tinged only with glossy 

 green ; from the eye to the hindhead this last colour is very con- 

 spicuous, forming a kind of wreath round the back of the head, 

 where it inclines to white; wing coverts brown, many of them 

 margined with green ; the secondaries the same, and. several as 

 long as the greater quills, which are only edged with green for 

 about half their length ; the under parts of the body are very pale ; 

 the tail not quite four inches long, rounded at the end, and coloured 

 as the quills ; the shafts of both quills and tail chestnut ; legs dusky. 

 Inhabits Apye, one of the Friendly Isles, where it is sacred 

 among the natives, as is that of Otaheite. 



A. — In Mr. Woodford's drawings is one eight inches and a half 

 long. Bill one inch and a half to gape, black ; top of the head very 

 pale brown, with a few dark streaks ; over the eye, from the nostrils, 

 a pale line, fringing the crown quite round like a wreath ; head, 

 neck, and back very pale brown ; beneath from the breast dusky 

 white ; wings and tail greenish brown ; legs red. 



25. -RESPECTED KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo tuta, Ind. Orn. i. 251. Gm. Lin. 453. 



Respected Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 624. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 81. 



SIZE of the Common Kingsfisher; length eight inches and a 

 half. Bill depressed, black, and one inch and a half in length, the 

 lower mandible white ; the upper parts of the body are olive-green ; 

 over the eye a white streak ; round the neck a collar of greenish 

 black ; under parts of the body from the chin white ; tail longish ; 

 legs black. 



