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full of narrow, longish feathers, which may be erected as a crest, 

 the colour of them pale ash, streaked with black; behind the eye a 

 dusky streak, passing- towards and surrounding the nape; neck and 

 all round dusky white, with a narrow dusky streak down the shafts 

 of the feathers ; chin and throat plain white ; breast and belly pale 

 yellowish dun, with narrow, long, blackish streaks ; vent the same, 

 but not streaked ; back and rump fine blue ; lesser wing coverts and 

 scapulars brown ; greater coverts whitish, with black ends ; the rest 

 of the wing pale greenish blue, except the ends of the quills, which 

 are black, the edge of the wing from the bend half way white, and 

 the greater quills white not far from the base; tail short, dusky blue ; 

 the wings reach to about half the length ; legs pale red. 



Inhabits Senegal. — From the collection of Gen. Davies. I found 

 also a specimen among Mr. Salt's birds, from Abyssinia, shot at 

 Chelicut, in the bed of a brook, closely shaded with trees and shrubs. 

 One, in the collection of Mr. Comyns, had the dusky black streak 

 continued from behind the eye wholly round the hindhead ; the 

 greater quills white a little way from the base, forming a spot ; the rest 

 of the length for one inch and a half dusky ; the second quill fringed 

 with pale blue ; and the middle of the back and rump of this last 

 colour, very bright, and the greater wing coverts streaked brown and 

 white, forming a longish patch on the wing. 

 This was brought from Sierra Leone. 



30.— NUBIAN KINGSFISHER. 



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

 from the gape, upper mandible dusky, the lower orange, with a 

 dusky tip ; head crested, and streaked as in the last described, but 

 darker ; the middle of the back fine blue ; scapulars and wing coverts 



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