ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE CXVII. 

 ALCEDO RUDIS 

 BLACK AND WHITE KING'S FISHER 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill triangular, thick, strait, long and pointed : tongue fleshy, 

 very short, flat, and pointed : feet generally gressorial. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Tail long : above veined with black and white, beneath white. 



Alcedo Rudis : macroura nigra albido varia subtus alba. Linn. 



Syst Nat. \. /?. 18L l2-~GmeL Syst L p. 

 1 57. --Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 247. 4. 



