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RED-HEADED KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo erithaca. A. hrachyura, dorso cceruleo, ahdomine luteo, 

 capite uropygioque purpureis, gula nuchaque albis, Lin. St/sf, 

 Nat. 



Kingfisher with blue back, luteous abdomen, purple head and 



rump, and white nape and throat. 

 Ispida Bengalensis torquata. Briss. av. 

 Le Martin-pecheur a front jaune. Buf. ois, 

 Bengal Kingfisher. Albin. 3. pi. 29. 

 Red-headed Kingfisher. Lath. ind. orn. 



A MOST beautiful species : size of the Common 

 Kingfisher: length about six inches and a quarter: 

 in the individual described by Brisson the upper 

 part of the head was dull red, with a yellow spot 

 in front; and from each side the base of the bill 

 passed a black band or streak across the eyes, be- 

 hind which was a second streak of deep blue : the 

 upper part of the neck was surrounded by a white 

 collar, the remainder of the neck, the back, and 

 scapulars were deep blue: the wings cinereous: 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts, as well as the tail 

 itself, dull red : the throat white ; the sides of the 

 head beneath the eyes, lower part of the neck, and 

 whole under parts of the bird, fine yellow: the bill 

 and legs red, 



VAR. 



This is of smaller size than the preceding. It 

 is figured in Mr. Pennant's Genera of Birds, from 



