50 KINGSFISHER. 



behind like a collar, ending towards the back in a point ; between 

 the bill and eye a spot of white ; thighs fulvous, mixed with white ; 

 under tail coverts the same, transversely striated with black ; lesser 

 wing coverts varied bluish ash, black, and yellowish ; nearest the 

 body bluish ash, spotted with white ; farther from the body blackish, 

 spotted with white on the outsides, and tips; greater quills, and tail 

 marked in the same manner ; legs red. 



Inhabits Martinico, and Mexico ; at the last place called Acha- 

 lalactli.* Is found at Mexico, in the northern parts at certain seasons 

 only ; supposed to migrate from the hotter countries. 



47.— BELTED KINGSFISHER. 



Alcedo Alcyon, Ind. Orn. i. 257. Lin. i. 180. Gm. Lin. i. 451. Bor. Nat. ii. 142. 



t. 20. 

 Ispida Carolinensis cristata, Bris. iv. 512. Id. 8vo. ii. 188. 

 Jaculator cinereus, Klein Av. 127. Seba i. 101. t. 64. 6. 



Belted Kingsfisher, Gen. Syn. ii. 637. Id. Sup. 116. Arct. Zoo/, ii. No. 169. Cat. 

 Car. i. t. 69. Amer. Orn. iii. pi. 23. f. 1. Shaw's Zool. viii. p. 58. 



SIZE of a Blackbird ; length ten inches and a half. Bill two 

 inches and a half long, and black ; head crested ; general colour 

 of the plumage bluish ash above, and white beneath ; on each side 

 of the head are two white spots, one between the bill and eye, and 

 the other beneath the latter ; round the neck a collar of white ; under 

 this, on the fore part, the neck is bluish ash; on the breast a chest- 

 nut band, three quarters of an inch deep ; the greater wing coverts, 

 and second quills have white tips ; the prime quills black, with 

 transverse spots of white on the inner webs, and tipped with white ; 

 end of the tail white ; legs brown. 



* Mr. Adanson is said to have found this in Senegal, but although he might have met 

 with one bearing the same name, we have no further proof of its being the same bird. 



