204 ALCEDINIDJE . 



buff collar round the hind neck barred with dusky blackish fringes 

 to the feathers. 



Hah. Mountains of South-eastern Now Guinea. 



a, b. cS ad., 5 East Cape. K. Ilimstein [C.]. 



imm. sk. (Types of species.) 



c. Ad. sk. Asti-olabe Mts. {A. Goldie). Tweeddale Coll. 



d, e. 9 ad. sk. Astrolabe Mts. H. II. Romilly, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 /, (J. S ad. et Sogere district, Astrolabe Mts., II. 0. Forbes, Esq. 

 juv. sk. Oet. [C.]. 



14. DACELO. 



Type. 



Dacelo, Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 125 (1815) D. gig'as. 



Paralcyon, Gloger, in Froriep's Notizen, p. 278 (1827). ... D. gigas. 



Choucalcyon, Less. Traite d^Oni. p. 248 (1831) U. gigas. 



Nycticeyx, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 3-j8 (1842) U. gigas. 



Range. Australia and Southern Now Guinea. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Sexes alike in colour as regards the tail ; crown 



rufous-brown in the centre, white on the sides 



of the crown ; a band of brown on the nape . gigas, p. 204. 



b. Sexes different — the male having a blue tail, [pp. 206-209. 



the female a red one ; head distinctly striped, leachi and alUes, 



1. Dacelo gigas. 



Grand Martin-pecheur de la Nouvelle Guinee, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. 



Gain. i. p. 171, Taf. 106 (1766). 

 Martiu-Pecheur de la Nouvelle Guinee, Daubcnt, PI. Unl. viii. 



pi. 663. 

 Le plus grand Martin-pecheur, Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. vii. p. 181 



(1780). 

 Great Brown Kingfisher, Lath. Gen. Sijn. i. pt. 2, p. 609 (1782) ; 



White, Voy. N. 8. Wales, p. 137, pi. 2 (1790). 

 Alcedo gigas, Budd. Tabl. PL ml. p. 40 (1783). 

 Alcedo undulata, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 90 (1786). 

 Alcedo fusca {nee Budd.), Gm. Sgst. Nat. i. p. 454 (1788). 

 Alcedo gigantea, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 245 (1790) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. 



viii. p. 53 (1811) ; Bonn, et Tieill. Enc. Meth. i. p. 282 (1823). 

 Dacelo gigantea. Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 125, pi. cvi. (1815) ; Vig. 



^ Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 204 (1827) ; Gould, B. Austr. ii. 



pi. 18 (1844) ; Reicheotb. Vog. Neuholl. p. 36 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 153 (1850) ; Biggies, Orn. Austr. pi. 23 (1870). 

 Choucalcyon australe. Less. Traite, p. 248 (1831). 

 Dacelo gigas, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 78 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. 



Mus. p. 51 (1848) ; Peichenb. Handb., Alced. p. 40, Taf 427. 



figs. 3161-63 (1851) ; Cass. Cat. Hale. Philad. Mus. p. 14 (1852) ; 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 189 ; id. Cat. Mamm. ^ B. New Gain. 



pp. "19, 44 (1859) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 19 (1863) ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 122 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



