. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . ^. THE COM^ION KINGFISHER. 67 longer than the bill, in Alcedo the bill is much longer thanthe tail. So it is in the African genus Corythoniis and theAustralian genus Alcyone^ both of which are fish-eaters, butAlcyone has only three toes, and Corythornis has a long droop-ing crest, which distinguishes it at once from Alcedo. I. THE COAIMON KINGFISHER. ALCEDO ISPIDA. Alcedo ispida, Linn. S. N. i. p. 179 (1766); Macg. Br. B. 671 (1840); Dresser, B. Eur. v. p. 113, pi. 290(1875);Newt. ed. Yarr. n. p. 443 (1881) j B. O. U. List Br. B. (1883); S
. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . ^. THE COM^ION KINGFISHER. 67 longer than the bill, in Alcedo the bill is much longer thanthe tail. So it is in the African genus Corythoniis and theAustralian genus Alcyone^ both of which are fish-eaters, butAlcyone has only three toes, and Corythornis has a long droop-ing crest, which distinguishes it at once from Alcedo. I. THE COAIMON KINGFISHER. ALCEDO ISPIDA. Alcedo ispida, Linn. S. N. i. p. 179 (1766); Macg. Br. B. 671 (1840); Dresser, B. Eur. v. p. 113, pi. 290(1875);Newt. ed. Yarr. n. p. 443 (1881) j B. O. U. List Br. B. (1883); Seebohm, Br. B. ii. p. 341 (1884); Lilford,Col. Fig. Br. B. part viii. (1888); Saunders, Man. p. 269(1889); Sharpe, Cat. B. xvii. p. 141 (1892). {Plate XXXIV.) Adult Male.—General colour greenish-blue, the scapularfeathers slightly streaked with brighter blue; the back, rump,and upper tail-coverts, rich cobalt-blue, sometimes, in very oldindividuals, deep blue ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series spotted with greenish-
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