7S SACRED KINGFISHER. 



from a specimen brought by Commerson from 

 Bouro, one of the Molucca islands. In the work 

 entitled Planches Eluminees it is erroneously said 

 to be from the Cape of Good Hope. 



.: SACRED KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo sacra. A, cceruleo-viridis sub f us alba, super ciliis strigaque 

 sub oculis ferrugineis, remigibus caudaque nigricantibus. Lath. 

 * ind. orn. 



Blue-green Kingfisher white beneath, with a ferruginous streak 



above and beneath the eyes, and blackish wings and tail. 

 Sacred Kingfisher. White's V oy. p. ] 93. and pi. oppos. var. crested. 

 Sacred Kingfisher. Lath. syn. pi. 27. var. subfulvous beneath. 



Size of the Green-Headed Kingfisher, to which 

 it seems considerably allied, and appears to be 

 found, in many varieties, throughout the smaller 

 scattered islands called the Society Isles in the 

 South Sea, as well as in some parts of the vast is- 

 land, or rather continent of New Holland. The 

 crown of the head and upper parts are blue-green, 

 palest on the lower and deepest on the upper parts 

 of the back: the quills and tail dusky, with blue 

 edges, appearing entirely blue when closed: over 

 the eyes generally passes a ferruginous streak, 

 bounding the green of the crown; the throat is 

 white ; the remainder of the under parts very pale 

 ferruginous, passing upwards, in the form of a 

 moderately broad collar, round the neck: the bill 

 is dusky, the under mandible whitish towards the 



