34 BIRDS. PICyE. 10-14. 



10. ALCEDO. Kingfisher. 



54. A. ispida. Crown and wing-coverts blackish green, 

 with bright azure lines: lores red-orange : chin and 

 spot each side the neck white : hack and rump bright 

 azure : breast and belly dull rufous. 



Kingsfisher. Erit. Zool. t. 38. Lewin t. 53. Donovan t. 100. 



Length 7 inches : extent 11 inches : weight an ounce and a quarter. 

 Bill 2 inches long, black, tinged with orange at the bafe of the 

 lower mandible : iris hazel : acrofs the eyes a reddish band, under 

 which is a dark-blue ftripc : throat buff-colour : /capillars and upper 

 tail-coverts bright "azure : tail short, deep blue: legs red-orange: 

 claws blackish. 



11. SITTA. Nuthalch. 



55. S. Europcea. Bluish-grey, beneath pale rufous : lore 

 black ; 4 lateral tail-feathers black, white toward 

 the tip. 



Nuthatch. Br. Zool. t. 38. Lewin t. 52. Donovan t. 81. 



Length nearly 6 inches : breadth 9 inches : weight 6 drachms. 

 Bill Dlack, whitish at the bafe of the lower mandible : iris hazel : 

 from the upper mandible acrofs the eyes a black ftripe turning 

 abruptly down the neck : chin and cheeks whitish : quills dusky : 

 vent varied white and ferruginous : tail short, 2 middle-feathers 

 bluish-grey, the reft black, more or lefs marked with grey and " 

 white ,- legs yellowish-grey : claws large, dusky. 



12. MEROPS. Bee-eater. 

 50. M. apiasier. Head and back chesnut : lores black : 

 throat yellow : breast and belly green-blue : 2 mid- 

 dle tail-feathers of the male longer. 



Bee-eater. Lewin t. 43. Sowerhy Mifc. t. 69. 



Length 10 inches. Bill blackish : iris dull red : front blue green, 

 behind it green: throat divided from the breaft by a curved black 

 line : sides of the back golden-yellow, with a chefnut tinge : shoul 

 ders orange shaded with green : fmaller. wing-coverts green, fome 

 of the greater edged with blue, the reft chefnut tipt with black : 

 quills rich blue : rump blue : tail fea-green, the 2 middle-feathers in 

 the male nearly an inch longer than the reft : legs short, pale-red : 

 claws blackish. 



13. UPUPA. Hoopoe. 



57. U. Epops. Variegated with black, white, and pale* 

 rufous : head with a pale rufous crest, tipt with black: 

 tail black, with a white band. 



Hoopoe. Br. Zool. t. 39. Lewin t. 54. Donovan t. g. 



Length 12 inches : extent 19 inches : weight 3 ounces. 

 Bill 2 Inches and a half long, blackish: iris dark hazel: cr eft of a 

 double row of dull orange feathers tipt with black : sides ol the 

 head, neck and breaft pale rufous, in the young bird the breaft and 

 belly fpotted with black : upper part of the back brown : quill- 

 feathers black, with white bands : rump, lower-part of the belly and 

 vent white : tail of 10 feathers, the outer-ones white on thq outer 

 edges, except the tip : legs short, black. 



14. CERTHIA. Creeper 



58. C. familiaris. Tawny-grey, beneath white: head 

 with black and yellow-brown streaks : wings brown- 

 ish, 10 of the feathers with a white spot. 



Creeper. Brit. Zool, t. 39. Lewin t. 55. IValcot t. 54. 



