'I was only looking for a kingfisher's nest: indeed now, I was, Paul Tregarva.' 'Don't lie, you were setting night-lines.

Koskomenos, k[)o]s'k[)o]m-e-n[)o]s', the kingfisher.

Eleanor fixes her clear, penetrating eyes upon me, and drags my thought out into the light, just as a kingfisher pounces upon and pulls a fish out of the water.

Even the gay Kingfisher has been seen diving in the seaside pools.

Oo-kis-ki-mu-ni-sew, Kingfisher.

The kingfisher plumps bodily down on the minnow from an overhanging perch; the solan goose, soaring, plunges from a "pernicious height"; the heron, high on its stilts, darts out a long and serpentine neck; the diver, with similar beak and neck, but different legs, pursues the fleeing shoals under water; to the swift and slippery fish all are alike terrible in their certainty.

When he saw them coming, Ca Boo-Ug called to Salacsacan, the kingfisher, who was sitting on a branch of a tree which hung over the water: "Salacsacan!

This bird, often called a "hornbill" by foreigners in the Philippines, is probably the halcyon kingfisher (Ceyx euerythra) of the islands.

So the boy sung his new song of the kingfisher in the water-meadow and the cuckoo who had overslept itself.

Kingfisher |Passeres |Augubrostres |Alcedo |A. Alcyon.

By standing on a jutting ledge of the soft cretaceous rock, and holding on by another ledge, which appeared not unlikely to come down and crush you, one could peep into the hole and comfort oneself with the thought that one was nearer a kingfisher's nest than is usually vouchsafed to mortal man.

Her mind drifted like a soaring kingfisher over the whole area between her childhood and the events of this very morning, swooping down here or there to pick up some incident wherever a gleam of memory attracted her.

The kingfisher darts along like an arrow; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings, as it were, swim along, while missel-thrushes use a wild and desultory flight; swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns and quick evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations, like a butterfly.

He will see ravens and hawks about the crags, and about the river half covered in summer with floating pond-weed, watercress, and the broad leaves of the yellow lily, he will notice many a water-ouzel bobbing with white breast, water-hens gliding from bank to bank, merry bands of divers, and the brilliant blue gleam of the passing kingfisher, which here is allowed to fish in peace, like the otter.

WHAT THE KINGFISHER KNEW.

But no one replied, chiefly because no one knew, excepting the kingfisher, and he was away on a fishing expedition.

This time the kingfisher answered them, for he was just back from a fishing expedition.

But although the kingfisher happened to have a very little body he had a very big mind, and he explained to the young willow-trees that, even if cricket might be only a game, yet it trained boys and men for the Battle of Life.

After the War began the kingfisher used to bring back what news he could gather on his fishing expeditions.

The kingfisher was preening his small many-hued body in the sun.

The kingfisher.

Sacred Kingfisher, Latham, 4 25.

The only birds seen were the sacred kingfisher, the sulphur-crested cockatoo, and the Australian crow.

The only other bird which I shall mention is a very fine kingfisher (Halcyon saurophaga) with white head, neck, and lower parts, green scapulars, and blue wings and tail, previously known by a single specimen from New Guinea in the British Museum.

The next in order of occurrence was a third species of the genus Tanysiptera (T. sylvia) a gorgeous kingfisher with two long, white, central tail-feathers, inhabiting the brushes, where the glancing of its bright colours as it darts past in rapid flight arrests the attention for a moment ere it is lost among the dense foliage.