KINGSFISHER. 35 



32 —COMMON KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Ispida, Ind.Orn.'u 252. Lin. i. 179. Mus. Ad. Frid.'x. 16. Scop. i. No. 64. 



Gtn. Lin.u US. Rail 48. A. 1. Will. 101. t. 24. J3m.iv. 471. Id. 8vo.ii. 176. 



if/em 33. 1. Id. Stem. t. 5. f. 1. a. b. Id. Ov. t. 4. C. .FmcA t. 223. Mull. No. 



105. Brun. in App. Gesn. Av. pi. in p. 513. Faun. Arag. p. 73. 2Jor. iVaf. ii. 



143. Schosf. El. t. 41 . Bechst. Deuts. ii. 534. id. Ed. 2d. ii. 1106. SnawV Zool. 



Lect.t.59. Nat. M isc. pi. 129. Tern. Maw. 262. Jrf. £«". ii. p. 423. 

 Eissvogel, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 56. Wirs. Vog. t. 3. Natitrf. ix. s. 5. Jd. xiii. 182. 



Id. xxii. 121. 

 Uccello pescatore (Santa Maria), O/iw. £/c. t. p. 39. Cett. Uc. Sard. 99. Zinnan. Uov. 



116. t. 22. f. 106. Gerin. t. 493. Spal. Vog. iii. t. 17. 

 Martin-pescheur, Bvf. vii. 164. pi. 9. PI. enl. 77. 

 Der gemeine lasur blaue Eisvogel, Schmid Vog. 52. t. 40. 

 Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 626. Id. Sup. 115. Br. Zool. i. No. 88. pi. 38. Id.fol. 82. 



pi. 1. JW. 1812. i. 326. pi. 42. Arct. Zool. ii. 280. A. Albin. i. pi. 54. Collins's 



Birds, pi. 2. f. 4. & pi. 11. f. 2. JSradZ. 2Vaf. 1. 11. f. 1. Will. Engl. 146. pi, 24. 



Bewick ii. pi. p. 19. Lewin Birds, ii. t.52. Walcot Birds, i. t.52. Donov. iv. 



t. 100. Gray. Br. Orn. ii. pi. 13. Wood Zoogr. i. 449. pi. 20. Pult. Cat. p. 6. 



Shaw's Zool. viii. 80. pi. 10. Orn. Diet. # Sup. 



THIS, the most beautiful of British birds, is in length seven 

 inches, in breadth eleven, and weighs one ounce and a quarter. Bill 

 near two inches long, and black, but the base of the under mandible 

 is yellow ; iridesred; top of the head, side and wing coverts dark 

 green, changing into blue ; and marked with transverse spots of a 

 brighter, and very lucid blue ; the tail deep blue ; but the middle of 

 the back, and the tail coverts are bright azure ; at the base of the 

 upper mandible an orange spot, at the upper corner of which is a 

 small patch of white, and under that a black mark ; behind the eye 

 a broad rufous orange-coloured stripe, passing a little way on each 

 side of the neck, and beneath this, a patch of white ; chin white, 

 with a tinge of rufous ; the rest of the parts beneath rufous orange ; 

 legs red. 



I do not rind any material difference between the male and female. 



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