collected in Dutch New Guinea. 215 



Young. Iris hazel ; upper mandible black, lower pale 

 green. 



I am unable to recognise any races of this species. 



Mr. Groodfellow says that the natives brought numbers o£ 

 half-fledged young of this species to the base-camp at Waka- 

 timi during May and June. Many of these were purchased 

 by the Javanese soldiers and. convicts, but, as they were fed 

 on boiled rice only, their lives were brief. 



'' Gaudichaud's Kingfisher was a common bird everywhere, 

 and was met with throughout the jungle, both singly and in 

 pairs. It was by no means wild, and was usually to be seen 

 perched on some conspicuous branch about 20 ft. above the 

 ground. Its flight was straight and tolerably swift, and its 

 call was of two syllables, best described as ' cJiuk-cliuk.'' " — 

 C.H.B.G. 



Halcyon macleayi. 



Halcyon macleayi Jard. & Selb. j Sharpe, Oat. xvii. p. 254 

 (1892); van Oort, p. 77 (1909). 



Halcyon macleayii publa Mathews, Austr. Av. Rec. i. p. 38 

 (1912). 



a. c?. ■Wakatimi,Mimika River, 21st Aug. 1910. [No. 1, 

 C.H.B.G.] 



Iris brown ; bill black, pearly whitish at the base of the 

 lower mandible ; feet sooty-black. 



The wing measures 88 mm., and is rather smaller than 

 that of most Australian examples, but two specimens 

 collected by F. Strange in Queensland measure respectively 

 88 and 89 mm. On the other hand, a bird from South-east 

 New Guinea measures 93 mm. and others from Fergussou 

 Island are equally large. In one Queensland bird the wing- 

 measures 96 mm. 



Mr. Mathews distinguishes four subspecies of H. macleayi 

 in Australia, but even with the help of his series I fail to 

 recognise more than one [cf. List Birds Austr. p. 148 (1913)] . 

 The type-specimen of his H. m. disiinguendiis from South 

 Alligator River, which he has kindly sent me for examina- 

 tion, certainly has the back and scapulars unusually blue. 



