NEW SOUTH W A L E S. 
fe. 
Order 11 . Pies. 
Genus XXIII. KingsMier. 
Great brqwn Kingsfisher.~I,<3'/Z'. Syn. ii. 
p, 60 3s No. I. 
The length of this fpecies is from fixteen to eigh- 
teen inches : the bill, three inches and an half, or even 
more; the upper mandible is brown, and the under 
white, but brown at the bafe : the head is pretty full of 
feathers, fufficiently fo to form a crefl when eredted ; 
the colour whitifh, and moft of the feathers either tipped 
xor croiTed with black : the neck and under parts of the 
body are much the fame in colour, croffed on the fides 
with dufky lines : over the forehead the colour is dulky 
brown, almofi: black, paffing backwards in an irregular 
iliaped ftreak a good way behind the eye : the back^ 
and major part of the wing, is black or dujty, but the 
middle of the wing is of a gloffy blue-green, as is alfo 
the lower part of the back and rump : the tail is barred 
with pale ruft-colour and black, inclining to purple, and 
towards the end whitilli : the legs are of a duf!;y yellowj, 
the claws are black. 
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