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is M. princeps. Dacelo gaudichaudi is a true Dacelo, and not in the least congeneric with 

 Monachalcyon princeps, which is really the type of a distinct genus. 



Chelicutia is a new genus. The type is Alcedo chelicuti of Stanley. This name is of 

 course ignored in the new genus, which has no structural peculiarities to separate it from 

 Halcyon. 



Lacedo (!!) is a new genus, the type of which is the Dacelo pulchella of Horsfield. 



Megaceryle ccesia and M. domingensis are new species. They are difficult to distinguish 

 from the plates, but seem to be Cei*yle torquata and C. alcyon. 



Chloroceryle leucosticta and C. chalcites are new species. They appear to be C. amazonia 

 and C. americana. 



Verreaux, J. & E. Description d'especes nouvelles, rares ou peu connues, d'oiseaux de 

 Gabon. (Eev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 264.) 

 Halcyon badia is a new species. 



De la Berge. Description d'une nouvelle espece de Martin-pecheur. (Kev. Zool. 1851, 

 p. 305, pi. 9.) 



Alcedo verreauxii is a new species from Borneo. It is the female of A. asiatica. 



Cassin, J. Catalogue of the Halcyonidae in the Collection of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. 8vo. 1852. 

 A very good collection is contained in the Philadelphia Museum, the most noticeable 

 rarities being all the types of Mr. Gould's Australian species, as follows : — Alcyone pusilla, 

 Halcyon pyrrhopygia, H. sordidus, Syma flavirostris, Dacelo cervina, Tanysiptera sylcia. 

 Besides these the Museum also contains the type of Alcyone lessoni. 



Strickland, H. E., and Sclater, P. L. List of a Collection of Birds procured by Mr. C. J. 

 Andersson in the Damara Country in South-western Africa. (Contr. to Orn. 1852, 

 p. 141.) 



Halcyon damarensis, StrickL, is a new species. It seems to be nothing more than a large 

 South-African race of //. chelicutcnsis. 



Hartlaub, Dr. G. Bericht iiber die Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der Vogel wahrend 

 des Jahres 1851. 8vo. Berlin, 1852. 

 In a review of " the Alcedinece " of Reichcnbach's ' Handbuch,' the author believes that a 

 bird figured by him as II. cinnamomina, from the Marquesas Islands, is really not that 

 species ; and he proposes to call it H. reichenbachii . 



Hombron, H., et Pucheran, Dr. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie — Zoologie, tome iii. 

 Mammiferes et Oiseaux. 8vo. Paris, 1853. And folio Atlas of Plates (1842-53). 

 The plates were evidently published before the letterpress, as two Kingfishers are figured 



