catalogue of birds from new guinea. 19 



Peltops Beainvillii. 



Eiinjlaliiiiis Blainvillei, Gam. A'^oy. de la CJnqu. t. 19. 



Peltops Blaiuvillei, Wagl. 



Hub. New Guinea ; Ilavre-Dorey {Gnri>ot). 



Alcedinid^. 

 Dacelo Tyuo. 

 Dacelo Tyro, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 18.58, pi. 171. pi. i;33. 



S . Top, sides of head and back of neck black, spotted and 

 banded with fulvous white ; najie and upper part of back fulvous 

 white, banded and margined with black ; scapulars black ; wiug- 

 coverts black, broadly margined with shining blue ; quills and tail 

 black, margined externally with dull blue ; back black, and lower part 

 of back glossy silvery blue ; beneath the body pale fulvous, lighter 

 on throat. Upper mandilile black, and lower pale horn -colour. 



2 ■ Quills and tail greenish blue. 



Length 13"; wings 5|". 



Juv. Beneath with each feather margined with black ; bill black, 

 tipped with pale horn-colour ; otherwise the same. 



a, b. Am Islands. Procured from ^Ir. Wallace. 



Dacelo Gaudichaudi. 



Alcedo Gaudichaudi, Quoy & Gaini. Voy. IJrauie, t. 21. 

 ChaucaJcyon Gaudichaudi, Less. 

 Dacelo Gaudichaudi, G. R. Gr. 



a. New Guinea (Lobo). From Baron Laugier's Collection. 



Island of Waigiou {Quoy ^- Gaimard). ^oT€cf ,[li^itM-) hral^i>-^)Hrup, 



b, c. Am Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. f^ 



Dacelo macrorhinus. 



Dacelo macrorhinus, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. t. 31*. f. 2. 

 Melidora Ettphrosife, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 249. 

 Melidora macrorhina, Sclater, Proc. L. S. I8.58, p. l.Ki. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Havre-Doroy {Lesson) .(^fUaM . ) 



Dacelo undulatus. 



Alcedo uiidulata, Scoj). Del. Fl. et Fauna lusubr. j). !)() ; Sonn. 

 Voy. N. G. t. 106. 



Hab. New Guinea {Sonnerat). 



Halcyon collaris. 



Alcedo collaris. Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. lns\djr. p. 90. 

 Halcyon collaris. Swains. Zool. Illustr. pi. 27 ; G. R. Gray, Proc. 

 Z.S. 18.i8, p. 171. . ff r, jji ' 



Hab. Am Islands (//fl//ffrp). Pl^iyC j\}f^^-J 



