100 15LUE-HEADED KINGFISHER. 



white: head and hind part of the neck purplish 

 chesnut : back, wing-coverts, scapulars, rump, up- 

 per tail coverts, and tail bright beryl or blue-green v 

 quill-feathers cinereous: whole under parts yellow- 

 ish white. Native, according to Seba, of America, 

 but of what particular part is not specified. 



BLUE-HEADED KINGFISHER. 



Alcedo cyanocephala. A. ccerulea subtus fulva, vertice nigro^un- 



dulata^ rostro pedihusque rubris. 

 Blue Kingfisher^ fulvous beneath, with the crown undulated with 



black, and red bill and legs. 

 Alcedo mrulocephala. Lin. Gmel. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Martin-p^cheur a tete bleue. Buff, ois. PI. Enl. 356. 

 Blue-Headed Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



This is an elegant small species described by 

 BufTon, and figured in the Planches Enluminees, 

 In colours and general appearance it is nearly 

 allied to the Crested Kingfisher, and measures 

 about four inches in length: its colour above is 

 fine ultramarine blue, the crown of the head trans- 

 versely undulated with paler or greenish blue : the 

 quill-feathers dusky: the whole under parts bright 

 rufous, except the throat, which is white : the bill 

 and legs are red: the rufous colour of the under 

 parts is in some specimens continued round the 

 neck in form of a collar. 



Dr. Latham in his Supplement mentions a va- 

 riety of this species, in which the head and neck 

 were of a yellowish rufous colour; the crown va^ 



