. Illustrations of ornithology . /. (/ ry.*- f/ ;/?>/■/?. .?. rs//.f /?/<■/<■//////(■/ . CEYX AZUREA, (nobis).A%ure three-toed Kings-fisher. PLATE LV. Fig. 1. C. supra, capitis lateribus colloque nitide cyaneis: subtus rufus, mento gulaque al-bescentibus; pedibus tridactyKs. Three-toed Kings-fisher, Lemhi, Birds of N. S. Wales, plate I. Azure Kings-fisher, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. viii. p. 61. Tri-digitated Kings-fisher, Shams Gen. Zool. vol. viii. part i. p. 105. Alcedo azurea, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. xxxii.—Smainson, Zool. Illust. plate 26. 1 he genus Ceyoc was formed by M. De Lacepede f
. Illustrations of ornithology . /. (/ ry.*- f/ ;/?>/■/?. .?. rs//.f /?/<■/<■//////(■/ . CEYX AZUREA, (nobis).A%ure three-toed Kings-fisher. PLATE LV. Fig. 1. C. supra, capitis lateribus colloque nitide cyaneis: subtus rufus, mento gulaque al-bescentibus; pedibus tridactyKs. Three-toed Kings-fisher, Lemhi, Birds of N. S. Wales, plate I. Azure Kings-fisher, Lath. Gen. Hist. vol. viii. p. 61. Tri-digitated Kings-fisher, Shams Gen. Zool. vol. viii. part i. p. 105. Alcedo azurea, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. xxxii.—Smainson, Zool. Illust. plate 26. 1 he genus Ceyoc was formed by M. De Lacepede for the reception ofthe three-toed Kings-fisher, Alcedo tridactyla, Linn-eus. This was thenthe only species known to possess a difference in the structure of the feet,and the genus was thrown out by our more modern ornithologists, as com-posed of a solitary individual, and which did not possess other characters atgreat variance from the true Alcedones. Since that period, however, severalother species have been discovere
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