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"fp°ts of a ferruginous colour, which are broadeft at the tip
o f the feathers : ,the throat ferruginous white : belly and thighs
whitifh, marked with longitudinal broadilh cinereous fpots:
upper tail coverts quite white : quills fpotted with white on the
inner webs, chiefly at the tips: tail even at the end, and inclining
to afh-colour: legs pale green : claws blackifh.
Inhabits lower Egypt, about Cairo-, builds inJycamore and date
■ trees; and feeds on frogs, infers, and fmall fijh, which laft it meets
with in the fields when they are overflowed. Its cry is not unlike
that of the common Crow.
Linriteus has fet this down with the fynonyms of his Alcedo
rudis, our laft fpecies; but, as it feems to differ both in fize and
colour, I have fome fufpicion about it, and have therefore given
Haffelquift’s description of the bird, that the reader may form his
own judgment.
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NEW GUINEA
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Le Martin pêcheur de là Nouvelle Guinée, Son, Voy. p. 171. t. 107.
D escription. > 1 'HIS is defcribed as equalling the others in fize. The bill
and irides blackifh: the whole of the plumage black,
fpotted or marked with white; the fpots of an irregular form:
the head, back, and wing coverts, are marked with fmall round
fpots : quills and tail the fame; but the fpots are of twice the
fize : the neck and belly are marked with longitudinal white
fpots, each feather having a ftripe down the middle: on each fide
o f the neck are two large white fpots, the one above the other,
the fpace between which is narrow, and fpotted like the reft of
zhe neck; the upper one is in the lhape of a pear, with the point
2 upwards,
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upwards, and fomewhat oblique 5 the under one is round: the
legs are blackifh.
This inhabits New Guinea,
Alcedo Smyrnenfis, Lin, 1Syjl. i. p. 1&1. N° 1 1 •— Scop, ann. i. p. 55*
N° 65.
Le Martin pêcheur de Smyrne, Brif, orn, iv. p. 499* 13*
Smyrna Kingshiher, Albin, iii.~ pi. 37-
T ENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill more than two inches
in length, and red: irides whitifh : the head, neck, breaft,
helly, fides, thighs, under wing and tail coverts,, of an elegant
cheftnut: the throat is white : on the breaft is a tranfverfe band
of the fame, about half an inch in breadth : the leffer wing coverts,
and thofe next the body, dull green: the greater coverts,
fartheft from the body, of the fame colour on the outfide and
tips, but blackifh within: the quills the fame: the tail feathers
are blackifh ; but the two middle ones are wholly of a dull
green, and the outer edges of the reft of the fame colour; but all
o f them are blackifh on the under fide : the legs are red: the
olaws blackifh,.
Inhabits the environs of-Smyrna,.
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