38 KINGSFISHER. 



singing before their transformation ;* we may, therefore, presume, 

 that the Halcyon of old authors, if really a singing bird, is not 

 likely to prove the Kingsfisher, at present known under that apella- 

 tion ; but, the reader will find this more fully treated of in the British 

 Zoology, to which we refer him. 



33— BABOUCARD KINGSFISHER. 



Ispida Senegalensis, Bris. iv. 485. t. 39. 1. Id. Svo. ii. 180. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 423. 

 Le Baboucard, Buf. vii. 193. Gen. Syn. ii. 618. 16. A. 



SIZE of the last; length six inches and a half. Bill brown; 

 head and hind part of the neck dull green, each feather tipped with 

 a brighter green spot ; on the sides of the head are two fulvous spots, 

 the one between the bill and eye, the other behind the latter, and 

 very small ; the back fine blue green with a small mixture of brown; 

 rump and upper tail coverts bright blue green ; throat pale yellow ; 

 the under parts of the body orange; the scapulars dull green; wing- 

 coverts the same, tipped with bright blue green ; quills brown ; the 

 outer edge green, the inner orange; the lesser the same, but the 

 inner margins brown ; tail brown, the two middle feathers, and the 

 outer edges of the others blue green; legs reddish. 



Inhabits Senegal, whence it was sent by M. Adanson. It has many 

 things in common with the European one, and by some supposed to 

 be the same, but it is most probably a distinct species. 



* Ovid. Metam. Lib. xi. 1. 745, 



