White-throated kingfisher, Halcyon smyrnensis. Great kingfisher. Handcoloured woodblock engraving after George Edwards Edward Donovan from The Natural History of Birds, published by Brightly and Childs, Bungay, Suffolk, 1815. Charles Brightly established a printing and stereotype foundry in Bungay in 1795 and went into partnership with nonconformist radical printer John Firby Childs in 1808.

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