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ALCEDINIDiE. 



the base of the middle feathers already coalescing into one uniform 

 blue base ; head nearly uniform dark brown, the feathers broadly 

 centred with blackish, the edges somewhat mottled with reddish- 

 brown markings ; the nape lighter, the crest-feathers being whiter, 

 with narrow dark brown centres ; hind neck clear fulvous, with 

 more or less distinct zigzag cross lines of brown ; lores tawny buff, 

 as also the feathers below the eye, the latter with blackish shaft- 

 streaks ; ear-coverts dusky brown ; cheeks clear fulvous, with 

 central streaks of light brown breaking up into irrgular cross lines 

 on some of the feathers ; tliroat and fore neck white, with irregular 

 zigzag cross lines of light brown ; remainder of under surface of body 

 clear fulvous, crossed with zigzag lines of brown ; under tail-coverts 

 uniform and deeper buff; axillaries lilic the breast, and barred 

 across in the same manner ; under wing-coverts whiter and crossed 

 distinctly with blackish bars, broader and forming a distinct patch 

 on the median lower coverts near the edge of the wing. 



B. occidentalis of Gould seems to me to be inseparable from 

 D. cervinct, the under surface being, perhaps, rather paler and the 

 cross bars more obsolete. 



On all these races of Kingfisher, cf. Sharpe, Eeport Voy. H.M.S. 

 ' Alert,' p. 24. 



Hab. Northern Australia from Cape York to N.W. Australia. 



a. 2 ^^- s^^- 



b, c. d ad. sk. 

 d,e. c?ad.;/. $ 



ad. sk. 

 ff, h. $ ad. sk. 



i. Juv. sk. 

 k. cJ ad. sk. 

 I, m. (S ad. et 



imni. sk. 

 n. Ad. St. 

 o. (S imm. sk. 

 p, q. S ad. ; r. 



2 ad. sk. 

 s-v. (S ad. et 



imm. 

 w. $ ad. sk. 

 x,%j. c? ? ad sk. 



North Australia. 



Cape York. 



Cape York (/. T. Cockerell). 



Linnean Society, 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Cape York (J. 

 Sharpe Coll.). 

 Port Essington. 

 Port Essington. 

 Port Essington. 



T. CocJxrell : Tweeddale Coll. 



Earl of Derbv [P.]- 

 Dr. Sibbald [P.]. 

 Capt. Chambers [P.]. 



Port Essington. 

 Port Essington. 

 N.W. Australia, April {F. T. 



Grer/onj). 

 Victoria River, Nov., Feb., 



March. 

 Gilbert River, Oct. 

 Derby, N.W. Australia {G. 11. 



Boicyer Boivcr). 



Capt. Chambers [P.l 

 J. P. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 



J. R.Elsey,Esq. [P.]. 



.J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 

 Capt. Bowyer Bower 



[P.]. 



Subsp. /3. Dacelo intermedia. 



Dacclo leachii (7iec Lath.), U Albert. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 531 ; Ramsay, 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W". i. p. 389 (1877 : Port Moresby) ; id. op. 



cit. iv. p. 97 (1879: S.E. New Guinea). 

 Dacelo intermedins, Salvad. A?2n. Mns. Genov. ix. p. 21 (1877 : Fly 



River), x. p. 307 (1877) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xiii. 



pp. 312, 493 (1878), xiv. p. 686 (1879); Salvad. Ora. Papuasia 



etc. i. p. 497 (1880). 

 Dacelo leachii, var., Pamsai/, Proc. Limi. Soc. N. S. W. iii. p. 261 



(1879 : Port Moresby) ; Salrad. Ibis, 1879, p. 322. 



