﻿DACELO GIGAS. 



(LAUGHING KINGFISHER.) 



Grand Martin-pCcheur de la Nouvelle Guinee 



Martin- peclieur de la Nouvelle Guinee .... 



Great Brown Kingfisher ...... 



Alcedo gigas . ' . 



Alcedo undulata . ...... 



Dacelo undulatus ....... 



Alcedo fnsca . . ...... 



Alcedo gigantea ....... 



Dacelo gigantea ....... 



Dacelo gigas . . . . . . 



Paralcyon gigas ....... 



Gogohera, of the Natives of New South Wales (Gould). 



D. scapularibus brunneis : sexibus simillibus : pileo : 

 nuchali brunneo. 



Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 171, t. cvi (1776). 



Buff. PI. Eul. 663 (c. 1780). 



Lath. Syn. I. pt. 2, p. 609 (1782). 



Bodd. Tabl. desPl. Eul. p. 40 (1783, ex Buff.). 



Scop. Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. II, p. 90 



C1786, ex Sonn.). 

 Gray. P.Z.S. 1858, p. 189. 

 Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 454 (1788, ex Lath.). 

 Lath. Lid. Orn. I, p. 245 (1790). 

 Leach, Zool. Misc. II, p. 125, tab. cvi (1815). 

 Gray, Gen. of B. I, p. 78 (1846). 

 Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein.th. II, p. 165 (1850). 



cdio rufescenti-bruuneo, utrinque albido : cinctu 



Hab. in Australasia. 



Male. Head brown in the centre, becoming very dark, almost black, on the nape ; 

 feathers running along the base of the bill dirty white; lores, feathers under the eye extend- 

 ing backwards over the ear-coverts very dark brown, long and hairy; sides of the head 

 extending backward round the nape white, indiscriminately marked with small bars of brown ; 

 below this white, a narrow line of dark brown feathers, encircling the neck from the 

 extremity of the ear-coverts ; below this brown collar there is another white one, rather 

 broad and marked with indistinct little brown bars ; back and scapulars brown ; rump 

 brown washed with pale blue ; wing-coverts dark brown, broadly edged with pale blue 

 appearing silvery white in some lights ; quills dark blackish brown, white at the 

 base, this white appearing at the base of the outer web of the fourth, tilth and 



Additional references. — Dacelo undulatus, J. E. and G. R. Gray, Cat. Mamm. and B. of N. Guin. p. 55 

 (1858). Alcedo gigantea, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. I, p. 282 (1823); Shaw, Gen. Zool. VIII, p. 53 (1811). 

 Dacelo gigantea, Vig. and Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XV, p. 201 (1826); Steph. Gen. Zool. II, p. 101 (1826); 

 Bennett, Wander, in N. S. W. I, p. 221 (1831) ; Gould, B. of Austr. II, pi. 18 (1818); Reich. Vog. Neuholl. 

 p. 36 (1850) ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 153 (1850) ; Brehm, Bildor und Skizzon, p. 20!) (1865) ; Gould, 

 Handb. B. of Austr. I, p. 122 (1865) ; BoL List Vertebr. An. Zool. Soc. p. !)() (1866) ; Diggles, Orn. of Austr. 

 part I (1868,). Dacelo gigas, Gray, Cat. Piss. Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1818); Reich. llandb. Jhrd. p. 40, t. 

 ccccxxvii, fig. 3161-63 (1851,); Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 14 (1852); Gray, Ilandl. of B. I. p. 89 (1869). 



