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2. Leaciiii. Lath. MSS. D.albidafusco-fasciota,capitefusco- 

 lineato, dorso anteriori scapularibus alisque fitscis, his cceruleo 

 azureoque variegatis, uropt/gio cœruleo, caudù uzureù, apice 

 albo. 



Caput subcristatum, albidnm, fusco-lineatum. Gala albida. 

 Pectus, nucha, abdomen, crissu>?ique albidee, fasciis fuscis 

 gracilibus undulatœ. Dorsi antcrioris plumœ basi alba; 

 apice fusca?, inferioris uropi/giique basi fusca?, medio albœ, 

 apice cœruleœ. Ptila anticè brunneo-fusca, posticè apice 

 cœrulea. Fteromatum plumœ externe azurea?, interne fuscœ. 

 Tectrices inferiores albidte fusco-fasciatoe. Remiges ad ba- 

 sin albfv;, pogoniis externis à medio azureis, internis fuscis. 

 llectrices; supra, pogoniis externis azureis apice albis, trium 

 externarum pogoniis internis albis fusco-fasciatis ferruoineo 

 parce variegatis, quartfe pogonio interno fusco prope rha- 

 chin azureo, duarum mediarum pogoniis internis azureis, 

 externis. fuscis ; subtus, extimas albœ fusco-fasciatœ, quatuor 

 media? fuscœ apice albo. Rostrum fuscum, ?nandibulâ in- 

 feriori apice supràque albidà. Longitudo corporis, 15^-; 

 alee ad remigem tertiam, 7^ ; caudce, of ; lyiandibuhe supe- 

 rioris, ad frontem, 2-,^, ad rictum, 3^ ; tarsi, 1^. 



New Holland Kingstisher. Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 11. no. 2. 



In honorent Gulielmi Elford Leach, Medicina Doctoris, 

 Societatum Regiœ et Linneanœ Socii, <5'C. <^-c., ornithologi 

 eximii, qui primitm hoc genus detcait character/basque illus- 

 travit, hac species perpulchra nominatur. 



The specimen of this species in the Society's collection was 

 presented by ]\Ir. Brown, who discovered it, on the 24th of Octo- 

 ber 1802, in Keppel Bay on the East Coast. The species was 

 subsequently met with at Shoal water Bay, and Broad Sound, on 

 the same coast. 



Genus. 



