CP.E5TED KI-nGFISHEH. 
nearly related to our Crested King-Fisher; es 
the shght difference between them seems not to 
indicate more than a variety. " We cannot," 
he adds, " ascertain to what species the small 
bird of the Piiiiippines, which Camel calls 
Salaczac, and which appears to be a King;- 
fisher, should be referred ; nothing more than 
the name being given in the enumeration of 
the Philippine birds inserted in the PhiiO:^opi]i- 
cal Transact. ons. Latham, supposes it to be 
a variety ot the Vintsi. It is the Alcedo Cris- 
tata eleganiissime pivfla, or Seba; and th-_ 
Ispida Indica Crista:a of Brisson, which lie 
describes from a drawing that was sent him 
from the East Indies : but, concludes Biitfon, 
as we have not seen the bird, we can add uj- 
tliino; to his delineation." 
