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V ar. A .
B escRj pt i .ow,
4.
SLACK AND
WHITE
K.
D escrip t ion.
k i n g s f i s h e r .
This fpecies inhabits Africa. Dr. Pallas fays, that he has feet
many o f them, all of which have been brought from the Cape of
Good Hope.
Martin pêcheur huppé, Buf. d f. vii. p. 188.—PI. enl. 679,
THIS’ lf not the very fame bird with the former, is not
greatly different. The length of it is fixteen inches. The-
upper parts of the body blackifh grey, fpotted tranfverfely
with white : the bread, vent, and under tail coverts, rufous : the
reft of the under parts white. This feems much to cor-
refpond with the former ; but I am not fo well fatisfied about
the next defenbed, though it in fome meafure bears a refem-
olance..
Alcedo rudis, Lin. Syjl. i, p, 181, N° i2r.
Le Martin pefeheur blanc & noir, Brif. ,rn. iv. p. j 20. N» 24.
Le Martin pêcheur pie, Buf. oif. vii. p. jg -
Martin pêcheur huppé du Cap de Bonne Efperance, PI. ,nl. 7I6.
Black and white Kingsfiftier, Edn», i. pi. p..
t. 39. f. ^
L E N G T H eleven inches.. The bill black, and near three-
inches long: the head and hind part of the neck covered
with black feathers, edged with white on each fide, fo as to form
longifh lines of this laft colour t on each fide of the head is a
ftnpe of white, beginning at the bafe of the upper mandible, and
palling over the eye towards the neck the bark, wings, and
upper parts of the body, are fpotted irregularly with black and
white; the bread: and fades the fame, but the black, fpots lefs:
throat,.,
K I N G . S F I S H E K. 61 j
throat, and under parts to the tail, wholly white r quills fpotted
white and black; the tips of the greater ones black: tail white,
with a black band near the end,, which is narroweft on the more
outward feathers; befides which, the two outward feathers have
two femicircular black marks, one on each fide,.near the margin :
legs and claws black.
Inhabits Afia and Africa. Buffon received one from the Cape of Pia o e s ..
Good Hope*, fimilar to the above, but fmaller, being only eight
inches in length. The top of the head was black: the back was
alfo black, clouded with white: the other parts of the body
mixed black and white, not unlike the other, but on the whole
had a much greater mixture of black in the plumage.
Edwards’s bird is faid- to have come from Perjia; and Briffbn
fets down the Crab-catcher of Sloane f as fynonymous; but Buffon
will not allow of it by any means, reafoning from the impofli-
bility of any one fpecies of thefe birds being, a native of both
continents. Whether this be the cafe or not, I am clear that neither
Sloane’s defeription nor figure will by any means afeertain the
fa®, the one being not diffidently- explicit, and' the other moft.
miferably executed-
AlceJo ^Egyptia, Hafftf. Bin. p. 245. N° 2j-. EGYPTIANK.
'T 'H IS is the lize of the Royfton Crow. The bill is blackifh, D escrip t ion,.
more than half an inch broad’at the bafe, and two inches in
length : the head, fhoulders, and back, are brown, marked with
oblong ferruginous fpots: the fides the fame, marked with lurid
# El. tnl. 62.. f. Sloan. Jam. vol. ii. p, 313: t. 255, f. 3.
fpots:-