WHITE-BILLED KINGFISHER. 99 



the inner covert- feathers of the wings orange-co- 

 loured : the quills within are dusky, with their 

 edges of a faint orange-colour: the underside of 

 the tail is dusky or blackish: the breast, belly, 

 thighs, and covert-feathers under the tail are of a 

 bright orange-colour : the legs and feet are made \ 

 as in other Kingfishers, and of a red or scarlet 

 colour: it was shot in the island of Johanna to the 

 northward of Madagascar." 



I know not how it happens that Dr. Latham 

 has neglected to quote Edwards's description and 

 figure of this bird m his most excellent Ornitho- 

 logy, since there can be no doubt of its being the 

 same species with the Crested Kingfisher of that 

 author, and the Vintsi of Buffon, whose specimen 

 appears to have been merely somewhat smaller, 

 and v/ith a red bill, as was the case also in a beau- 

 tiful specimen in the Leverian Museum, which has 

 been figured in the Naturalist's Miscellany, and 

 is also represented in the present work. 



WHITE-BILLED KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo albirostris. A, ccerulea, vertice.purpureo'castaneoy refnigi- 

 bus subfuscisj subtus albo-JlavescenSf rostro albido. 



Blue Kingfisher with purple-chesnut crown and brownish quill- 

 feathers ; beneath yellowish-white, with whitish bill. 



Alcedo dmtricana, seu Apiastra, Seb. I. pi. 53. f. 3. 



Le Martin-p^cheur a bee blanc. Bitf, ois. 



White-billed Kingfisher. Lath, syn. ' 



Described and figured in the work of Seba: 

 length about four inches and three quarters : bill 



