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Gould, J. Birds of Australia, vol. ii. Folio. 1848. 



Beautiful plates of Dacelo gigantea, D. leachii, D. cervina, Halcyon sanctus, H. pyrrhopygia, 

 H. sordidus, II. macleayii, Alcyone azurea, A. pusilla are given. 



Dacelo cervina is described for the first time. 



Gray, G. R. List of Specimens of Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. 12mo. 



1848 (p. 51). 



The specimens in the British Museum are here enumerated. The types of Halcyon 

 albicilla, Gould, 77. superciliosa, Gray, Alcedo nais and A. nitida of Kaup, and Halcyon 

 platyrostris, Gould, are the most noticeable rarities. 



Halcyon superciliosa is here mentioned for the first time, though no description is given. 

 It is the true Alcedo sacra of Gmelin. 



Peale, Titian. United States Exploring Expedition — Birds. Folio. Philadelphia, 1848. 



I have never seen this book ; but from Dr. Hartlaub's critical notes on it (Archiv f. Naturg. 

 1852, p. 93) it appears that 



Dacelo nullitorquis was described as a new species. It is Todirhamphus veneratus (Lath.). 



Dacelo vitiensis is a new species. It is Halcyon sacra (Gm.). 



Dacelo minima is a new species. It is Todirhamphus recurvirostris, Lafr. 



Dacelo coronata is a new species. It is Halcyon sacra (Gm.). 



Jardine, Sir W. Illustrations of Ornithology. 8vo. 1848-1852. 



Alcyone cineta is a supposed new species, and is figured under this name on the plate. 

 Afterwards identified with A. cyanopectus, Lafr. 



Alcedo quadribrachys is figured (pi. 79). 



Blytii, E. Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 8vo. Calcutta, 



1849 (p. 46). 



Twenty-five species are named ; one more is added in the first appendix, and one more in 

 the addenda to appendix, no. 1 (p. iii). In the further addenda to appendix, no. 3 (p. xxvii), 

 Mr. Blyth believes Alcedo grandis,B\., to be the adult, and A. nigricans, Bl., to be the young 

 of Alcedo euryzona of Temminck. This view is correct as regards A. nigricans ; but Mr. Blyth 

 has since altered his opinion as regards A. grandis. 



Gould, J. On new Species of Birds from Australia. (P. Z. S. 1850, p. 200.) 

 Tanysiptera sylvia is a new species from Cape York. 

 Halcyon (Syma X) Jlavirostris is a new species from the same locality. 



Cassin, John. Descriptions of new Species of Birds of the Genera Paradisea, Pastor, and 

 Buceros, and a proposition to rename others of the genera Alcyone and llirundo. (Proc. 

 Phil. Acad. 1850, p. 67.) 

 A. azurea, apud Lesson, from New Guinea has been mistaken for the true A. azurea of 



Australia, and is proposed to be called A. lessonii. 



