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MINUTE KINGFISHER. 
Generic Character. 
Bill trigonal, thick, ftrait, long, fharp-pointed. 
'Tongue flefhy, very fhort, flat, fharp-pointed. 
Feet (in moft fpecies) grefforial, i. e. three toes 
forward and one backward ; and the three 
lower joints of the middle toe clofely joined 
to thofe of the outmoft. 
Linnaus and Pennant. 
Specific Character , &c. 
SMALL BLUE KINGFISHER? (Tody ?) ful¬ 
vous beneath, with a purple fpot on each 
fide the neck. 
LE TODIER BLEU a ventre orange. 
Buff. oif. 7. p. 229. 
TODIER DE JUIDA? 
PI. enl. 783. f. 1. 
This bird is beyond companion the fmalleft of 
the Kingfifher tribe. The plate reprefents it in its 
natural fize. It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and 
is alfo common in Sumatra. 
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