THE 
WHITE-COLLARED KINGFISHER. 
Generic Character. 
Bill trigonal, thick, ftrait, long, lharp-pointed. 
Tongue flefhy, very fhort, flat, iharp-pointed. 
Feet (in moll; fpecies) grelTorial. 
Specific Character, &c. 
BLUE KINGFISHER, rufous beneath, with 
green fhoulders and rump, a white collar 
round the neck, and a white ftreak over the 
eyes. 
WHITE-COLLARED KINGFISHER. 
hath. fyn. p. 620. 
The white-collared Kingfifher is a native of India: 
in fize it exceeds the common or European King¬ 
fifher: the head and back are of a rich and beautiful 
blue: the lhoulder-feathers or fmaller wing-coverts 
and the rump of a bright green : the breaft and ab¬ 
domen rufous ; the bill and feet dufky. 
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