K I N G S - F I S - H E R, 623
Le Msrtin-pecheur k collier blanc des Philippines, Son. Voy. p. 67. t. 33.
— Buf. otf. vii, p. 152.
I 2.
V a R. D.
' j '■ HIS is no doubt a further Variety. Sonnerat fays, it is lefs
than a Blackbird : the bill black ; the- lower mandible yel-
1-owilh at the bafe: head, back, wings, and tail, blue tinged with
green : the under parts of the body white, extending round the
middle of the neck like a collar : legs blackilh..
D escription.
Inhabits the Philippine Ißandu
Place.
Lev. Muß,
13.
VENERATED
K.
y ENGTH nine inches. Bill an inch and three quarters long,
much deprefied, and o f a black colourbut the bafe, for
above half an inch, of the under mandible is white : the upper
parts, of the body are light brown j, in lome parts mixed with
greenilh feathers, in others tinged only with glofly green : from,
the eye to the hind head this laft colour is very confpicuous,.
forming a kind o f wreath round the back part of the head, at
which place it inclines to white : the wing coverts are brown,,
many of them margined with green : the fecondaries are alfo
brown with green margins, and many of them as long as the
greater quills, which are only edged with green for about half
their length : the under parts of the body are very pale : the tail
is not quite four inches in length, rounded at the ends, and coloured
as the quills : the lhafts of both quills and tail are cheftnut-:
legs du Iky..
D escription.
This