THE 
BLACK-CAPPED KINGFISHER, 
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Generic Character. 
Bill trigonal, thick, strait, long. 
Tongue fleshy, very short, flat, sharp-pointed. 
Feet, in most species, gressorial. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Violet-blue KINGFISHER, with white breast 
and collar, rufous abdomen, and black head 
shoulders and wing-tips. 
BLACK-CAPPED KINGFISHER. 
Lath. syn. 1 . p . 024 . 
Martin-peclieur de la Chine. 
PL enl. 673 , 
The black-capped Kingfisher may justly be con¬ 
sidered as one of the most beautiful of the Chinese 
birds. It is represented on the plate of half the na¬ 
tural size. 
