6 C 2 NEW GUINEA KINGFISHER. 



genus Alcedo some species of the Bittern tribe. 

 The building on trees seems not to accord with 

 the general manners of the Kingfisher genus. 



NEW GUINEA KINGFISHER. 



A. Novae Guineas. A. nigra, supra macuhs albis rotundatis, sub- 

 tus elongatis; collo utrinque maculis duabus majoribus. 



Black Kingfisher, marked above with round, and beneath with 

 lengthened while spots ; the neck marked on each side by two 

 larger spots. 



Alcedo Novae Guineae. A. nigi'a albo maculata. Lin. Gmel. 



Martin-pcheur de la nouvelle Guine'e. Sotine*. voy. pi. 107. 



New-Guinea Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



DESCRIBED by Sonnerat. Size equal to that of 

 the Egyptian Kingfisher: bill and irides blackish: 

 whole plumage black, spotted or marked with 

 white, the spots being of an irregular figure : the 

 head, neck, and wing-coverts marked with small 

 round spots: the quill-feathers and tail similar, 

 but the spots twice the size: breast and belly- 

 marked with longitudinal white spots, each fea- 

 ther having a stripe down the middle: on each 

 side the neck two large white spots, one above 

 the other; the intervening space being narrow, 

 and spotted like the rest of the neck : the upper 

 spot is pear-shaped, with the point upwards, and 

 somewhat oblique; the lower spot round: the legs 

 are blackish. This species is a native of New 

 Guinea. 



