34 KINGSFISHER. 



brown, the margins of some of the last dusky white ; quills white 

 within half way from the base ; greater quills dusky, outer margins 

 deep blue ; all beneath from the breast dusky white, tending to buff 

 beyond the breast, streaked with narrow lines of black in the middle, 

 and broader ones on the sides ; tail deep blue ; legs orange. 



In the collection of Mr. Salt, and probably differs in sex from the 

 last described ; for though the distribution of colours is not far 

 different, it has the black streak from behind the eye to the nape. 



31 .—FERRUGINOUS-BELLIED KINGSFISHER. 



LENGTH nearly nine inches. Bill from the gape two inches 

 and a quarter, very stout, at the base near three quarters of an inch, 

 declining by degrees to a point, colour pale dusky yellow ; crown of 

 the head and nape, and each side as low as the jaw, black ; chin and 

 throat to the breast dusky white, passing round the neck in a narrow 

 collar ; back dark, toward the rump pale glossy blue ; wing coverts 

 clouded, glossy blue ; quills dusky, edged outwardly with bluish ; 

 beneath from the breast deep ferruginous ; tail blue ; legs yellow. 



The other sex has the lower part of the white throat, and collar 

 inclining to rufous; tail deep rufous instead of blue ; but whether 

 this is the male or female we are not informed. 



Inhabits the South Seas, but the place not .ascertained. 



