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A VOYAGE TO 
The Sacred King's Fisher. 
Order of Birds II. Pies. 
Genus XXIII. 
Species 12. 
The following defcription is extradted from Mr, 
Latham's Synopfis of Birds, vol. ii. p. 623. The fpe- 
cimen here reprefented, being the fame as his fourth 
variety of that fpecies marked D, 
" This in fize is rather lefs than a blackbird : the bill 
is black ; the lower mandible yellowilli at the bafe : 
head, back, wings, and tail, blue tinged with green : 
the under parts of the body white, extending round the 
middle of the neck like a collar legs blackifli." 
To which account we may add, that the bill is very 
ftrong at the bafe, and iliarp at the point ; that the 
feathers immediately above the bill are tinged with 
' yellow; and that the toes, as in mofl of this fpecies, are 
three before and one behind. 
CHAP. 
XV. 
Superb, 
