32 KINGSFISHER. 



I have also seen a drawing, in which one sex had the top of the 

 head, and dark parts of the wings and quills, brown instead of black. 



D.— Length eleven inches. Bill one inch and three quarters, 

 red, and stout; the head, even with the under jaw, pale rufous 

 brown ; neck and under parts pale rufous yellow ; wings pale blue 

 green; back and rump pale verditer blue; tail blue, but deeper; 

 quills black; legs dull red. 



Inhabits India. 



28— BLACK-BACKED KINGSFISHER. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill from the gape to point nearly two 

 inches, stout, and crimson ; head, neck, and breast pale brownish 

 ash-colour ; top of the head and sides much darker; chin very pale, 

 but not quite white ; belly, thighs, vent, under wing and tail coverts 

 ferruginous ; at the beginning of the back a portion of black ; but 

 the rest of the back, rump, and tail fine lucid blue, deepest on the 

 last, the under part of which is dusky, in shape rounded at the end ; 

 scapulars and wing coverts black, the outer webs of the secondaries 

 glossy blue for the greater part of the length, the prime ones the same 

 halfway from the base, but within for the same space white ; legs 

 red, claws black. 



Inhabits Sierra Leone. — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. 



29 —LIBYAN KINGSFISHER. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill stout, one inch and a half long, dull 

 red, with a dusky point, the upper mandible wholly dusky ; crown 



