THE 
CRESTED KINGFISHER. 
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Generic Character, 
Bill trigonal, thick, {trait, long, fharp-pointed. 
Tongue flefhy, very fhort, flat, (harp-pointed. 
Feet (in molt of the fpeeies) grelforial, i. e. three 
toes forward, and one backward; and the 
three lower joints of the middle toe clofely 
joined to thofe of the outmoft. 
Linnaeus and Pennant. 
Clafs, Pica. 
Specific Character. &c. 
SHORT-TAILED BLUE-CRESTED KING- 
1 TSHER, rufous beneath, the creft undula- 
lated with black. Lin. 
Edwards, ph 336? 
Le VINTSI. 
Buff. Hi ft. Oif. vol. VII. p. 205. 
In the Kingfiflier genus, we have examples of the 
moll linking variety and brilliancy of colour, and 
pei haps, in this refpect, no fpeeies can be found that 
exceeds the bird here reprefented. It is one of the 
fmaller birds of its genus. Its beauty is Angularly 
heightened by the elegant creft with which the head 
is ornamented. It is a native of the ifland of Amboy- 
na in the Eaft-Indies. 
