KINGSFISHER. 31 



A. — Martin pecheur de Lu^on, Son. Voy. 65. t. 31. Gen. Syn. ii. 625. 15. A. Ind. 

 Orn.i. 251. /3. 



Less than a Blackbird. Top of the head, and behind the neck 

 brown ; this surrounds the eye, and passes below it on each side, to 

 the middle of the upper mandible ; from the nostrils to the eye a 

 whitish stripe ; the upper parts and middle of the back brown ; 

 rump and upper tail coverts glossy sky-blue ; tail deep blue; wing- 

 coverts brown ; quills blackish blue in the middle, and dull black 

 at the ends ; throat to vent white ; in the middle of each feather a 

 longish brown streak ; round the lower part of the neck the white 

 passes round it like a collar. 



Inhabits the Island of Luconia. 



B.— Black-capped Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn ii. 626. 15. B. Ind. Orn.i. 252. 18. S. 



Length ten inches. Bill thick, two inches and a half long, and 

 red ; body above black, mixed with ferruginous, the feathers of the 

 head longest ; quills and tail blue green within, and shafts dark 

 coloured ; throat and breast white ; on the last some of the feathers 

 are tinged with pale green ; belly ferruginous brown ; legs red. 



Inhabits the South Sea, but what part uncertain. 



C. — Black-capped Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. Sup. lib. 15. C. 



Length eleven inches. Bill four inches, colour deep red ; the 

 head and all above the body deep blue ; wing coverts dusky black ; 

 quills the same, with the inner webs of many white, and the tips of 

 all black ; the under parts of the body white, running back like a 

 crescent at the lower part of the neck ; legs black. 



I met with this in the collection of the late Mr. Boddam. — It 

 appeared as a Variety of the Black-capped, if not differing in sex 



