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EGYPTIAN KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo i^lgyptia. A, macroura fusca maculis ferrugineis, gula sub' 

 ferrugineaj abdomine femoribusque albidis maculis cinereis, cauda 

 cinerascente. Lath. ind. orn. 



Brown Kingfisher with ferruginous spots, subferruginous throat, 

 whitish belly and thighs marked with cinereous spots, and sub- 

 cinereous tail. 



Alcedo iEgyptia. Hasselg. it, p, 245. Lin, GmeL 



Egyptian Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



This is described by Hasselquist as of the size 

 of the Corvus Cornix or Royston Crow : the bill 

 blackish; more than an inch broad at the base, 

 and two inches long: the head, shoulders, and 

 back brown, varied with oblong ferruginous spots: 

 the sides the same, with bright ferruginous spots, 

 broadest at the tips of the feathers: the throat 

 ferruginous-white : the belly and thighs whitish, 

 with longitudinal broadish cinereous spots: upper 

 tail-coverts quite white: quills spotted with white 

 on the inner webs, principally at the tips: tail 

 even at the end, and inclining to ash-colour: 

 legs pale green: claws blackish. Inhabits lower 

 Egypt; building in Sycamore Trees and Date 

 Palms, and feeding on frogs, insects, and small 

 fish. 



I know not whether Hasselquist was sufficiently 

 conversant in Ornithology to have at all times ac- 

 curately distinguished the genera of birds. It is 

 not impossible that he may have referred to the 



