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Bright blue kingfisher feathers were used in jewelry in early China since the T'ang Dynasty (AD 618-907). The birds, the water kingfisher (Alcedinidae) and the wood kingfisher (Halcyonidae), were common in China until demand for their feathers may have caused their extinction.