171 



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Hirundo nidifica, G. R. (Jr. 

 lliru mln fmijili 1/1/ a, Thunb. 



Hirundo esculent a, vax., Lath. Syn. Suppl. |>1. 135. 

 Hirundo brevirostris, McClell. 



llnh. Chaumont Isle; Louisiade Archipelago. cJ in British 

 Museum. 



9. Hirundo nigricans. 



Hirundo nigricans, Vieill. N. Diet. II. X. \i\ . p, 523 ; Voy. 

 Astrol. t. 12. f. _'. 



Collocalia arborea, Gould, B. of Austr. ii. pi. 1 I. 

 Hub. Aru Islands. S in British Museum. 



Cob lciad b. 



10. EURYSTOMUS I'ACIFICUS. 



Coracias pacijica, Lath. Iud. Orn. Suppl. p. wvii. 



TSurystomus orient alts (L.), Yip. & Ilorsf. 



Eurystonuu australis, Sw. ; Gould, B. of Austr. ii. pi, 17. 



Burystomus [incijicus, G. R. Gr. 



Hub. Aru Islands. 3 in British Museum. 



AlCEDINIDjE. 



11. Dacklo Gaudichaudi. 



Alccilo Gaudichaudi, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uranie, t. 21. 

 Ckaucalcyon Gaudiehaudi, Less. * 

 Dacelo Gaudichaudi, G. It. Gr. 



Hub. Aru Islands. <5 § in British Museum. 



12. Dacelo tyro. (PL CXXXIII.) 



J. Top, sides of head and back of Deck black, spotted and 

 handed with fulvous white ; nape and upper pari of back fulvous- 

 white, handed and margined with black; Bcapulars black; wiug- 

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

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

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

 on throat. Upper mandible black, and lower pale hom-colour. 



$. Quills and tail greenish blue. 



Length 13" ; wings 5 J". 



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

 tipped with pale horn-colour ; otherwise the same. 



Hub. \.ru Islands. 6 2 '•» British Museum. 



i ;>. Halcyon i oll iris. 



Alcedo rail, iris. Scop. Del. I'l'ir. tt Faun. In.-idir. p. I'd 



Halcyon collaris, Sw. /..nil. [llustr. pi. 27. 



Hub. Am Islands. ■ ' in Mr. Wallace's Collection, 



