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GREY-HEADED SENEGAL KINGHUNTER. 
Halcyon Senegalensis , Swains. 
Head, ears, and middle of the breast, cinereous-grey ; 1 ack, 
tail, and middle of the wings, blue ; wing-covers and ends 
of tlie quills, black ; upper mandible, red ; lower one, with 
the feet, black ; eyebrows, white. 
Ispida Senegalensis major, Brisson , Om. iv. 494 — Martin-pe- 
cheur a t6te gris, Bujf. ed. Sonn. xx. 233 \ PI. Enl. 594. — 
Alcedo Senegalensis, Linnceus. 
The Kinghunters have such a close resemblance to 
the kingfishers, that it is only of late years, since 
their habits and structure have been better known, 
that they have been separated. The first, which we 
characterised many years ago as the genus Halcyon , 
have the bill very broad, in some species even de- 
pressed ; and instead of living upon fish, they seem 
to frequent forests for the sake of capturing small 
reptiles and insects. Of these we have no species 
in Europe, although they are all confined to the 
limits of the Old "World. The true kingfishers, to 
which we still retain the name of Alcedo , have the 
bill very narrow and compressed on the sides ; the 
feet are much weaker, and they feed only upon fish. 
We have adopted the vernacular name of Ivinghunter 
from the French, who call the birds we are about to 
describe by the name of Martin-chasseurs. 
The Senegal Grey-headed Kinghunter was first 
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