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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3

Note 101 — Family ALCEDINIDÆ.—The Kingfishers.

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This confounding of the two sexes has probably resulted from guess-work of the collector, who, noticing the marked difference between the male and female, and naturally supposing the former to be the more brightly colored, marked the rufous-breasted specimens accordingly; while the few marked correctly may have been thus labelled after careful dissection.

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