14. DACDLO. 207 



/. Ad. sk. Kocldiampton, Queensland. Gould Coll. 



g. $ ad. sk. Moretou Bay. Gould Goll. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Rockingham Bay, May 27 {J. Capt. Owen Stanley 



Maccjillivray). [P.]. 



i. <S inim. sk. Gould Island, May. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.], 



k. § ad. sk. Possession Island, Endeavour Voy. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 



Strait, July {Dr. ('oppinger). 



Subsp. a. Dacelo cervina. 



Dacelo cervina, Gould, B. Ausir. ii. pi. 20 (1844) ; Grag, Gen. B. i. 



p. 78 (1846) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 154 (1850) ; Eeichenb. Vdg. Neuholl. p. 38 (1850) ; id. Handb., 



Alced. p. 40, Taf. 328. figs. 3164-65 (1851) ; Cuss. Cat. Hale. 



Philad. Mus. p. 16 (1852) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 189 ; Schl. 



Mtis. Pays-Bas, Alced. p. 19 (1863) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. 



p. 125 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 89, no. 1062 (1869) ; Sharpe, 



Monogr. Alced. p. 291, pi. 114 (1870) ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. W. i. p. 47 (1887 : Gulf of Carpentaria) ; id. op. cit. ii. 



p. 270 (1878: Port Darwin) ; Ramsay, t. c. p. 179 (1878) ; id. op. 



cit. (2) i. p. 1086 (1886), ii. p. 166 (1887 : Derby) ; id. Tab. List 



Austr. B. p. 3 (1888) ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iv. 



p. 1024 (1889 : Raeburn). 

 Dacelo cervicalis, Kaup, Fam. Eisv. p. 8 (1848). 

 Dacelo salusii, Jacq. et Pucher. Voy. Pole Siid, Zool. iii. p. 100, pi. 23 



(1853). 

 Paralcyon cervina. Cab. Sj- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 164 (1860). 

 Dacelo occideutalis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 602 ; Sharpe, Monogr, 



Alced. p. 293, pi. 115 (1870) ; Ramsay, Pr. Lijin. Soc. N. S. W. 



iii. p. 179 (1878) ; Sharpe, Voy. H.M.S. 'Alert; p. 23 (1884). 



Adult male. Similar to D. leacliii, but a little smaller, and with 

 a similar blue tail, but slightly fulvescent below : " upper mandible 

 blackish brown, the cutting-edges greenish white ; lower mandible 

 greenish white, the base dark brown on the sides, and blue on the 

 under surface ; tarsi and feet emerald-green ; claws black ; iris 

 greenish white " (J. Gould). Total length 15 inches, culmen 2*95, 

 wing 7-0, tail 4-75, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having a cinnamon- 

 coloured tail, barred with blue. Total length 15 inches, culmen 2"6, 

 wing 73, tail 5'1, tarsus 1. 



Nestling. General colour above dark brown, with scarcely per- 

 ceptible lighter brown edges to the feathers of the mantle and 

 scapulars ; least wing-coverts brown like the back ; median and 

 greater series brown, tipped with pale verditer-bluo or light greenish 

 cobalt; bastard- wing brown, washed with blue; primary-coverts 

 blackish, externally greenish blue ; quUls blackish, externally deep 

 blue, greener on the primaries, which are white near the bases of 

 both webs ; the secondaries edged with white at the tips, the innei* 

 ones brown like the back ; lower back and rump pale silvery cobalt; 

 upper tail-coverts bright rufous, barred with black ; tail-feathers 

 bright rufous, paler at the ends, barred with dark blue, theso blue 

 bands margined above and below with black, the bands broader 

 near the base and narrower towards the ends ; the blue bands at 



