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Alcedo \ pusilla is figured (vol. v. pi. 159), =lspidina picta. 

 Alcedo ccerulea is figured (vol. viii. pi. 269). Indeterminable. 



Alcedo erithaca is figured (vol. ix. pi. 317). Apparently Ceyx tridactyla, but is repre- 

 sented with four toes. 



Alcedo atricapilla is figured (vol. xii. pi. 265). 

 Alcedo chlorocephala is figured (vol. xiii. pi. 525). 

 Alcedo tribrachys is figured (vol. xvi. pi. 681). 

 Alcedo leucocephala is figured (vol. xix. pi. 793). 

 Alcedo smyrnensis is figured (vol. xix. pi. 825). 

 Alcedo inda is figured (vol. xxi. pi. 889). 

 Alcedo ultramarina is figured (vol. xxi. pi. 901). 



The scientific value of this work is very small, as all the figures and descriptions are taken 

 from the works of Buffon, Albin, Edwards, &c. 



Latham, H. Supplement II. to the General Synopsis of Birds, 1801 (p. xxxii). 



Alcedo azurea is the name proposed for the " Azure Kingfisher" (Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. 372). 



Lacepede. Memoires de l'lnstitut, 1801, p. 511. 

 The genus Ceyx is founded. 



Daudin, F. M. Description d'un Guepier et d'un Martin-pecheur d'Afrique (Ann. Mus. 

 d'Hist. Nat. ii. p. 440, 1803). 

 Alcedo ultramarina is a new species. It is Ispidina picta (Bodd.). 



Beehm, C. L. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vogel Deutschlands, 8vo. Ilmenau, 

 1811. 



Alcedo subispida (p. 149) and A. advena (p. 150) are described as distinct from A. ispida. 



Shaw, Dr. G. General Zoology, vol. viii. part 1, Aves, 8vo, 1812 (p. 52). 



All the names of the previous writers are introduced, the new ones proposed being : — 



Alcedo afra= Alcedo maxima, Pall., as is admitted by the author. 



Alcedo malimbica (ex Le Martin-pecheur de Malimbe of Sonnini) is described. 



Alcedo javanica (ex Buff. PI. Enl. lbl)=Pelargopsis leucocephala (Gm.). 



Alcedo capistrata (ex Latham's " White-collared Kingfisher "). Indeterminable. 



Alcedo tribrachys= Alcedo azurea, Lath. 



Stanley, Lord. Appendix to Salt's Travels in Abyssinia, 1814. 

 Halcyon chelicuti is a new species (p. lvi). 



LEAcn, W. E. Zoological Miscellany, 8vo, vol. ii. 1815 (p. 125). 



Dacelo is a new genus. The type is the Alcedo gigantea of Lath. (Alcedo gigas, Bodd.). 



Vieillot, J. P. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, tome xx., 1818 (p. 391). 

 Alcedo cwrulescens is a new species from Timor. 



