THE 



COMMON KINGFISHER. 



Generic Character. 



Bill trigonal, thick, flrait, long, fharp-pointed. 



Tongue fleftiy, very fhort, flat, fharp-pointed. 



"Feet (in moil: fpecies) grefforial, L e. three toes 

 forward and one backward, and the three 

 lower joints of the middle toe clofely jointed 

 to thofe of the outmoft. 



Spec ifi c Cha ra c ter , &c. 



SHORT-TAILED KINGFISHER, blue above, 

 fulvous beneath, with rufous lores and white 

 auricular fpot. 



THE COMMON KINGFISHER. 



Lath. Syn. l. p. 626. 

 Will, oriu 146. 



LE MARTIN-PECHEUR. 



Buff. oif. 7. p. 164. 

 PL enl. 77. 



The Alcedo Ifpida or common Kingfifher is by far 

 the mod brilliant of the Britilh birds : indeed no other 

 bird of Europe can equal it in livclinefs of colours ex- 

 I a cept 



