Australian Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society. 905 
2. Leaca. Lath. MSS. D. albida fusco-fasciata, capite fusco- 
lineato, dorso anteriori scapularibus alisque Juscis, his ceruleo 
azureoque variegatis, uropygio cæruleo, caudá azured, apice 
gio. —* n ez 
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Caput subcristatum, albidum, bisce hinattiin Gula albida. 
Pectus, nucha; abdomen, crissumque albidæ, fasciis fuscis 
gracilibus undulatæ. Dorsi anterioris plumæ basi albæ 
apice fuscæ, inferioris uropygiique basi fuscæ, medio albæ, 
apice cæruleæ.  Ptila anticè brunneo-fusca, posticè apice 
cærulea. Pteromatum plume extern? azureæ, interne fuscæ. 
T'ectrices inferiores albidæ fusco-fasciatæ. ^ Remiges ad þa- 
sin albæ, pogoniis externis à medio azureis, internis fuscis. 
Rectrices ; suprà, pogoniis externis azureis apice albis, trium 
externarum pogoniis internis albis fusco-fasciatis ferrugineo 
parce variegatis, quartz pogonio interno fusco prope rhe: 
chin azureo, duarum mediarum pogoniis internis azureis, 
externis fuscis; subtus, extimæ albæ fusco-fasciatæ, quatuor 
firon apice 7 T Tw dc ay Xx E A P. x E S, 151; um 
ale ad remigem tertiam, TF; caude, 5i; iandibule supe- 
rioris, ad frontem, 245, ad rictum, 344 ; tarsi, 1-3. 
New Holland Kingsfisher. Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 11. no. 9. 
In honorem GULIELMI Errognp LEacu, Medicine Doctoris, 
Societatum Regie et Linneanæ Socii, $c. &c., ornithologi 
eximii, qui primüm hoc genus deteait characteribusque illus- 
travit, hec species. perpulchra nominatur. 
The specimen of this species in the Society's collection was 
presented by Mr. Brown, who discovered it, on the 24th of Octo- 
ber 1802, in Keppel Bay on the East Coast. The species was 
subsequently met with at Shoalwater Bay, and Broad Sound, on 
the same coast. 
Genus. 
