KINGSFISHER. 47 



43— TERNATE KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Dea, Lid. Om. i. 256. Lin. i. 181. Gm. Lin. i. 458. Bor. Nat. ii. 146. 



Pallas Spic. vi. p. 10. note b. Galbula tertia* 

 Ispida Ternatana, Bris. iv. 525. t. 40. 2. Id. Svo. ii. 191. Seba, i. 74. t. 46. 3. 

 Pica Ternatana, Klein Av. 62. 

 Mavtin-pecheur, a longs brins de Ternate, Buf. vii. 196. Pl.enl. 116. Salem. Om. 



126. 

 Long-shafted Kingsfisher, SA atc's Zoo/, viii. 73. 

 Ternate Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 634. Bradl. Nat. 1. 12. f. 3. 



SIZE of a Starling ; length thirteen inches and a quarter. Bill 

 short, above half an inch thick at the base, and an inch and three- 

 quarters long, colour orange ; head and neck behind glossy blue, 

 lightest on the crown ; back and scapulars brown, margined with 

 deep blue ; wing coverts blue ; quills the same, with the insides and tips 

 black ; the under parts of the body and rump rose-coloured white ; in 

 the tail are ten feathers, the two middle ones very long, and exceed the 

 next by four inches, and the outmost by five inches and a half; the 

 two long ones are webbed only about one-third from the base, and 

 again at the tips, the intermediate parts almost naked and blue ; 

 the base and tips are rose-coloured white, with a blue spot on the 

 outer web, the rest of the feathers rosy white, with the outer edges 

 brown ; legs reddish. 



The long tail feathers in the male are said to exceed those of the 

 female by one-third. 



Inhabits Ternate, one of the Molucca Islands. 



A. — Length twelve inches. Bill one inch and quarter, pale red ; 

 head feathers, or crown, elongated in a crest, and blue; sides, in- 



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* Pallas in this note ranks it with the Jacamars. He says, it has two toes before and two 

 behind — perhaps it has the faculty of moving one of the fore toes behind, as the Owls and 

 gome others are known to do. 



