KINGSFISHER. . 4-3 



the whole a blue appearance ; chin white ; sides of the head, and all 

 beneath pale rufous, passing round the neck as a collar ; on each 

 cheek a large rose-coloured, purplish patch ; legs pale yellow. 



One, supposed to be a female, had no paler spots on the wings, 

 and the rose purple patch on the cheeks much smaller ; the greater 

 quills, with the inner webs, rufous for three-fourths of the length, as 

 also the tail feathers ; legs red. 



Inhabits Africa ; supposed to have come from Sierra Leone, or 

 Malemba. 



39— BLUE-BREASTED KINGSFISHER. 



LENGTH scarcely five inches. Bill one inch and a half, black; 

 the head on each side even with the eyes, and bill blue ; between 

 the nostrils and eye a white streak ; beneath from the chin white, 

 passing round the neck in a narrow ring, or collar; body above, and 

 wings verditer blue, coming forwards in a broad belt over the breast ; 

 from thence the belly, thighs, and vent white; on the crown and 

 wing coverts some lighter coloured, and glossy feathers, mixed ; quills 

 black; under wing coverts white ; tail blue; legs pale red. 



This is a most elegant species, although the plumage consists 

 only of two colours, viz : verditer blue and white. Its native place 

 uncertain, supposed to be Africa. 



40— INDIAN KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Bengalensis, Ind. Orn. i. 254. Ghn. Lin. i. 450. 

 Ispida Bengalensis, Bris. iv. 475. Id. 8vo. ii. 177. Klein Av. 34. 2. 

 Martin-peeheur de Bengale, Buf. vii. 201. 



Little Indian Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 631. Edw. pi. 11. — lower figure. Shaw's 

 Zool. viii. p. 102. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill sixteen lines, black, 

 with the base of the lower mandible flesh-coloured ; upper parts of 



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