42 KINGSFISHER. 



rufous yellow ; back and wing coverts fine blue ; quills and tail 

 rufous brown ; belly white ; legs red. 



C— Blue-headed Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 631. 20. Sect. ii. 



This diners from the last in having a white tuft on each side of 

 the neck near the wing. I received this from Guinea, from whence 

 the other Varieties were had ; we are informed also, that they inhabit 

 the Province of Congo ; Var. A. being common at Malemba, on 

 the borders of streams, and near the sea coasts, where it is called 

 Tounzi ; is very tame, and frequently seen to fly to the right and 

 left, for the purpose of telling the way to travellers, as the Negroes 

 think, on which account no one attempts to injure it. 



D.— Aleerlo ultramarina, Shaw's Zool. viii. 21. pi. 901. Baud. An. Mus. Nat. ii. 443. 



This is a small Species, of which the bill is whitish, tip fulvous ; 

 plumage blue, beneath fulvous; crown subcristated, striped trans- 

 versely with black. 



Inhabits Malemba, in Africa. Dr. Shaw thinks is most like the 

 Crested, but inclines to believe it a new species. 



38 —ROSE-CHEEKED KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo ultramarina, Ultramarine Kingsfisher, Band. Ann. Mus. H. Nat. ii. p. 443 ? 

 Nat. Misc. xxi. pi. 901 ? 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill one inch long, fine red ; 

 crown of the head very deep blue, the feathers edged with obscure 

 paler blue ; back, rump, and wing coverts fine deep blue, marked 

 on the latter with paler blue spots ; quills and tail dusky, edged 

 with blue ; the upper tail coverts reach half way on the tail, giving 



