THE 
GREEN-HEADED KINGFISHER. 
Generic Character. 
Bill trigonal, thick, strait, long. 
Tongue fleshy, very short, flat, sharp-pointed. 
Feet gressorial. 
Specieic Character, &c. 
Blue-Green KINGFISHER, white beneath, with, 
green crown margined with black. 
Le Martin-Pecheur a tete verte. 
Bicff'. ois. 7. p. 19O0 
PL Enl. 783 . f. 2. 
GREEN-HEADED KINGFISHER. 
Lath. syn. 1. p. S20. 
This highly elegant species is a native of the In¬ 
dian islands. Its size somewhat exceeds that of the 
common European Kingfisher. 
