BLUE-HEADED KINGFISHER. 101 



ried with black and blue, and the abdomen white. 

 Native of Madagascar, and, according to Monsr. 

 Daudin, (who describes it under the title of Alcedo 

 ultramarina,) of the country of Malimba in Africa, 

 where it is not uncommon. 



VAR.? 



MINUTE KINGFISHER. 



This very small Kingfisher has been generally 

 considered as belonging to the genus Todus rather 

 than Alcedo, and is the Todus cceruleus or Blue 

 Tody of Latham, and the Todier de Juida of the 

 Planches Enluminees. Monsr. Daudin, however, 

 in the Annales du Museum National d'Histoire 

 Naturelle, is decidedly of opinion that it is a ge- 

 nuine Kingfisher, and no other than a variety of 

 his Alcedo ultramarina^ which is doubtless the same 

 with the Blue-Headed Kingfisher. 1 have myself 

 described it as a species of Kingfisher in the fifth 

 volume of the Naturalist's Miscellany, under the 

 name of Alcedo pusilla or Minute Kingfisher. Its 

 length is three inches and a half: the crown of the 

 head and whole upper parts of the bird deep blue : 

 the cheeks and whole under parts orange-red; but 

 the throat is white, and beneath the eye on each 

 side is a purple spot : the bill and legs are pale 

 flesh-coloiir. The specimen represented in the 

 Naturalist's Miscellany is still smaller than that 

 figured in the Planches Enlumin^es, and has on 

 feach side the head, beneath the eyes, a broad 



