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45 -AMAZONIAN KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Amazona, Ind. Om. i. 257. 



Le Martin-pecheur d'un vert sombre, Voy. d'Azara iv. No. 421. 



Amazonian Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 116. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 60. 



SIZE of the Belted Kingsfisher ; length thirteen inches. Bill 

 three inches long, strait, and black, the under mandible yellow at 

 the base ; plumage on the upper parts of the body shining green ; 

 chin, throat, and belly white, passing backwards in a ring to the 

 nape ; sides of the body, and thighs mottled with green ; the breast 

 is also clouded with the same ; quills spotted with white ; the two 

 middle feathers of the tail are green, the others darker green, spotted 

 on each side of the web with white ; legs black. 



Inhabits Cayenne ; one similar also met with at Paraguay, but 

 it is scarcely eight inches long ; extent of wing ten inches and a 

 quarter. Bill seventeen lines ; on the fore part of the neck a bright 

 tinge of Spanish snuff-colour. 



46 —CINEREOUS KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo torquata, Ind. Orn. i. 256. Lin. i. 180. Gm. Lin. i. 452. 

 Ispida Mexicana cristata, Bris. iv. 518. t. 41. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 189. 

 Achalalactli, Raii 126. Will. 301. Id. Eng. 390. Buf. vii. 208. 

 Martin-pecheur huppe de Mexique, PL enl. 284. 

 Cinereous Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 636. 



SIZE of a Magpie ; length fifteen inches and a half. Bill three 

 quarters of an inch thick at the base, three inches and a half, or 

 more, long and brown, the base beneath red ; head crested ; irides 

 whitish ; upper parts of the head and body bluish ash ; the under 

 chestnut ; throat whitish, descending down the neck, and passing 



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