BIRDS. PICJE, 25.Alcedo. 
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Creftcd ; olive, beneath whitifli obfcurcly ftriatc ; temples 
and hind-head dirty-white ^ tail rounded with ruity 
and ilcel-blue lines, and tipt •with white. 
Great brivjn Ke 
Inhabits New Guinea; 18 inches long. 
Upper mandibU black, lower white, black at the bale 1 crejl 
brown, Itreaked with paler ; cheeks and iidcs of the Tiech 
blackilli ; lower part of the back and tump lea-green ; quill- 
Jeathers blue at tlie outer edge, within and at the tip black ; 
legs yellow ; claws black. 
Female crell o ; Crown blackilb ; collar white ; back entirely 
olive ; quill-feathers greenifh-brown ; legs blackifh. 
Tail long ; body alhy-bluc, beneath tawny ; breall tefta- 
ccous ; bill red. Cape K- 
Inhabits the Cape f Good. Hope ; 14 inches long. 
Bill blackilli at the tip ; head inclining to tawny i legs red. 
''Ka. 
2 . 
Suberefted; body dark plumbeous fpotted with white; 
chin white ; thfoat black ; bread and belly blood-red. 
Great African K. 
Blackifh-grey fpotted with white; beneath rufous, the 
hind-part white; 
Inhabits Africa ; fize of a cro'k. 
Bill black ; noprils linear ; fides of the neck with a white dalh ; 
quill and tail-feathers black fpotted with white. 
Female, throat tufty ; body beneath white with IranlVerfe b.ack 
lines. 
^'^len. Tail long ; body blue, beneath white ; head hoary ; 'wing • 
coverts black. Senegal A. 
Inhabits Senegal and Arabia : 9 hi^bes long. 
Upper red, lower and black. 
2- Head and neck white ; body beneath rufty ; w^ings black 
with a blue bar ; tail blue. 
Inhabits S(. Jago and Abyjftma i 9 inches long; feeds on 
crabs. 
Bill -And legs red •, fn'dr hazel. 
2 t Head and neck, blucilh-whitc ; body above blue, beneath 
rufous; wings black, io the middle blue. 
Inhabits Senegal; y inches long. Bill and legs black. 
,f' Tail long; body blue^green, beneath yello-wilh- awny 5 
band through the eyes, wing-cOverts and tips or the 
quill-feathers black. CraO'^ating K. 
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