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SPOTTED KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo Inda. A, atro-viridis nitens, albo-punctata, subtus fulva, 



fascia pectofali albo nigroque nebulosa^ 

 Glossy dark-green Kingfisher speckled with white, beneath fulvous 



with clouded black and \vhite pectoral band. 

 Alcedo Inda. A. brachyura virens, subtus fulva, fascia pectorali 



nebulosa. Lin. Sj/st. Nat. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Spotted Kingfisher. Ediv.pl. 335. Lath. syn. 

 Alcedo bicolor. A. viridis, fascia pectorali albo nigroque tariegata, 



corpore subtus torque colli strigaque nares inter et oculum rufis. 



Lath. ind. orn. 

 Alcedo bicolor. Lin. Gmel. 



Martin-pecheur vert et roux. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 5g2. 

 Rufous and green Kingfisher. Lath, syn. 



Described by Buffon. Size of the Common 

 Kingfisher: length eight inches: colour above deep 

 green, the wings marked both on the coverts and 

 quills with small scattered whitish spots: under 

 parts deep golden-rufous, passing, like a collar, 

 round the lower part of the neck: across the breast 

 a mixed or waved black and white band or zone: 

 tail spotted with yellowish white, like the quills: 

 from the nostrils to the upper part of the eye runs 

 a rufous streak: the bill is blackish, and the legs 

 reddish. Native of Cayenne. 



The bird described and figured by Edwards under 

 the name of the Spotted Kingfisher is so very nearly 

 allied to the above that I have no hesitation in con- 

 sidering it as the same species. Edwards describes 

 his specimen in the following manner. " The bill 



